[Feature request] Sending Stickers

[dcsan]

I searched the repo and there doesn't seem to be any specific issues except the Image/Video on #4

It would be awesome if Wechaty could support stickers. It seems to give
WARN MediaMessage stream() exception: Error: protocol unknown: null
currently on receiving.

But Sending would be the major thing to support.
I guess this is quite a large task since static image sending is not supported either yet.

But one of the big differences between a 1:1 chat with a person and an official account 'bot is animated stickers... so would be a great feature addition

related steps:
#4 (comment)

⬆️ upvotes ⬆️

[huan]

Yes, I agree that sending sticker is a must have feature for Wechaty.

Can you post how to reproduce WARN MediaMessage stream() exception: Error: protocol unknown: null here? Because it's not expected.

And for receiving stickers, you can have a try with example/media-file-bot.ts, it will save all the files(including stickers) to local files.

[dcsan]

The error:
I used the code from media-file-bot
When I send a sticker to myself I got the above error
Perhaps this is with official "paid" stickers (like the one above) rather than just free .gifs. The webUI currently I don't think enables ordinary "user generated" stickers to be sent?
I will check again and confirm later.

It seems to capture incoming gifs very well.

[huan]

It seems that wechat server had denied the web image link for sticker package according to geeeeeeeeek/electronic-wechat#2 and geeeeeeeeek/electronic-wechat#393

[huan]

@binsee Do you think this could be implemented based on your file upload & mediaId code?

See: #718

[binsee]

The server filters the stickers message, webwx can not get.

https://wx.qq.com/cgi-bin/mmwebwx-bin/webwxsync?sid=&skey=@&pass_ticket=
paid stickers json:

"MsgType": 47,
"Content": "",      // is blank

But,a small part can be passed, such as Tusky. Can be sent, but available in small quantities.

[huan]

It seems we have not found any good way to implement/resolve this issue.

Closed now.

Please let me know if there's any future enhancement we could do.