Setting sticker emoji with `send_sticker`

[Bibo-Joshi]

Hi. I just again stumbled over the fact, that one can specify the emoji associated with a sticker when adding it to a sticker pack with addStickerToSet, but not when sending them directly via send_sticker. Is there a specific reason for that? If not, would it be possible to add this functionality to send_sticker? 🙂

[levlam]

This is possible. But similarly to any other file attribute, the attached emoji will be ignored unless the sticker is just uploaded.

[Bibo-Joshi]

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. Are you saying that passing an emoji to send_sticker wouldn't have any effect if the sticker is sent via file_id? If so: That makes sense and would be expected behavior for me personally. My main user case would be uploading new stickers anyway - that just don't need to end up in a sticker set.

[Bibo-Joshi]

Looks like this is covered in API 6.6 https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#march-9-2023. Many thanks! :)