title: Is it possible to read bot Telegram messages
body: <p>I have successfully created a bot with and am able to fetch messages from a chat using the <a href="https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#getupdates" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong><code>getupdates</code></strong></a> method (long polling).</p>
  <p>The getUpdates method is only showing user posted messages (clientside). When I post messages directly using the <a href="https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessage" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong><code>sendmessage</code></strong></a> method (serverside) these messages do appear in the chat, but do not in the getUpdates log.</p>
  <p>This page <a href="https://github.com/LibreLabUCM/teleg-api-bot/wiki/Getting-started-with-the-Telegram-Bot-API#getupdates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/LibreLabUCM/teleg-api-bot/wiki/Getting-started-with-the-Telegram-Bot-API#getupdates</a>
  states it logs only when &quot;An user messages your bot, either directly or in a group.&quot; and some other ways, but the sendMessage way is not mentioned.</p>
  <p>I've read a bit on the <a href="https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#setwebhook" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong><code>setwebhook</code></strong></a> method (push) but am not sure this will fix my issue.</p>
  <p>Is this possible?</p>