Deep-linking is not working in Web K.
I have my own bot. And I generate link for users to connect, like that: https://telegram.me/some_my_cool_bot?start=123456789
My browser (Chrome 93.0.4577.63) ask whether to open it with desktop or Web version. I choose web version.
Then Web K opens and I've got "Start" button to connect to the bot.
And when I click on it in my bot I recieve only "/start" message.
If I choose to open with desktop version instead, I recieve "/start 123456789" message
Steps to reproduce
Create your own bot (for example with name: "some_my_cool_bot")
In onUpdateReceived method listen for incoming messages
@Andrey Kotelnikov does the behaviour you describe still occur for you? From my testing the "Start" button no longer appears *at all* for WebK.
There does not appear to be any way to deep link using WebK nor any way to force deep links to use the legacy Web application which did support them, did you find a solution?
We decided not to take web version into consideration. It has a lot of bugs. We added info to our customers that bot does not support web version.
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Thank you for the update Andrey, we may end up doing something similar. It would be useful to get some guidance from TG on short and medium term plans for WebK to help us all assess if it will become a viable option in the future.
As much as I hate to criticise telegram as a free service, it is hard to understand the thought process that concluded that the best approach was to make WebK the default web client (and only web client for deep links, which do not work in WebK), given the known bugs and feature gap.
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Kairat
Same issue on K,Z versions, will the fix the bug
Status changed to Fixed
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Денис.
the issue with mobile client on iPhones is still there. first time the query is passed along with /start command, second link opening does nothing at all but opens chat with the bot
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same issue on the windows app, only getting start without the parameter
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@Andrey Kotelnikov does the behaviour you describe still occur for you? From my testing the "Start" button no longer appears *at all* for WebK.
There does not appear to be any way to deep link using WebK nor any way to force deep links to use the legacy Web application which did support them, did you find a solution?
As much as I hate to criticise telegram as a free service, it is hard to understand the thought process that concluded that the best approach was to make WebK the default web client (and only web client for deep links, which do not work in WebK), given the known bugs and feature gap.