René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[FEATURE] API 7.4","articleBody":"### What kind of feature are you missing? Where do you notice a shortcoming of PTB?\r\n\r\n⭐ \r\n\r\n### Important\r\n\r\n- Comment here or in the dev group what you want to work on so we can assign you\r\n- Please copy the relevant part of the checklist from\r\n- https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/issues/4275 to your PR and make sure to cover everything :)\r\n- Please base your branch on the [api-7.4](https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/tree/api-7.4) branch\r\n- If this is your first contribution, please be sure to read the [contribution guide](https://docs.python-telegram-bot.org/en/latest/contributing.html) and feel free to reach out with any questions via https://t.me/pythontelegrambotdev\r\n\r\n\r\n### Describe the solution you'd like\r\n\r\n- [x] Added support for payments in [Telegram Stars](https://t.me/BotNews/90) by introducing the new currency “XTR”. (Taken by @harshil21)\r\n- [x] The parameter provider_token of the methods [sendInvoice](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendinvoice) and [createInvoiceLink](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#createinvoicelink) must be omitted for payments in [Telegram Stars](https://t.me/BotNews/90). (Taken by @harshil21)\r\n- [x] The field provider_token in the class [InputInvoiceMessageContent](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inputinvoicemessagecontent) must be omitted for payments in [Telegram Stars](https://t.me/BotNews/90). (Taken by @harshil21)\r\n- [x] Added the method [refundStarPayment](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#refundstarpayment). (Taken by @harshil21)\r\n- [x] Added the field effect_id to the class [Message](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#message). (Taken by @harshil21)\r\n- [x] Added the parameter message_effect_id to the methods [sendMessage](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessage), [sendPhoto](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendphoto), [sendVideo](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendvideo), [sendAnimation](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendanimation), [sendAudio](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendaudio), [sendDocument](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#senddocument), [sendSticker](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendsticker), [sendVideoNote](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendvideonote), [sendVoice](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendvoice), [sendLocation](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendlocation), [sendVenue](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendvenue), [sendContact](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendcontact), [sendPoll](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendpoll), [sendDice](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#senddice), [sendInvoice](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendinvoice), [sendGame](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendgame), and [sendMediaGroup](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmediagroup). (Taken by @harshil21)\r\n- [x] Added the field show_caption_above_media to the classes [Message](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#message), [InputMediaAnimation](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inputmediaanimation), [InputMediaPhoto](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inputmediaphoto), [InputMediaVideo](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inputmediavideo), [InlineQueryResultGif](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinequeryresultgif), [InlineQueryResultMpeg4Gif](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinequeryresultmpeg4gif), [InlineQueryResultPhoto](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinequeryresultphoto), [InlineQueryResultVideo](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinequeryresultvideo), [InlineQueryResultCachedGif](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinequeryresultcachedgif), [InlineQueryResultCachedMpeg4Gif](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinequeryresultcachedmpeg4gif), [InlineQueryResultCachedPhoto](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinequeryresultcachedphoto), and [InlineQueryResultCachedVideo](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#inlinequeryresultcachedvideo). (Taken by @harshil21)\r\n- [x] Added the parameter show_caption_above_media to the methods [sendAnimation](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendanimation), [sendPhoto](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendphoto), [sendVideo](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendvideo), [copyMessage](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#copymessage), and [editMessageCaption](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#editmessagecaption). (Taken by @harshil21)\r\n- [x] Added support for “expandable_blockquote” entities in received messages.\r\n- [x] Added support for “expandable_blockquote” entity parsing in “MarkdownV2” and “HTML” parse modes.\r\n- [x] Allowed to explicitly specify “expandable_blockquote” entities in formatted texts.\r\n\r\n### Describe alternatives you've considered\r\n\r\nIf you want to contribute, you can start from the [Contribution Guide](https://docs.python-telegram-bot.org/en/latest/contributing.html).\r\n\r\n\r\n### Additional context\r\n\r\nPlease comment below before start working on any part of the update to keep things in track and avoid double work.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/harshil21","@type":"Person","name":"harshil21"},"datePublished":"2024-05-28T13:01:58.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/4275/python-telegram-bot/issues/4275"}