diff --git a/bashbot-lib.sh b/bashbot-lib.sh
index f6e964b..ee47c34 100755
--- a/bashbot-lib.sh
+++ b/bashbot-lib.sh
@@ -113,10 +113,19 @@ getcbk_data() {
 
 gettimestamp() {
   local timestamp="$(tail -n 1 "${bot_tmpdir}${1}"\
-   | grep "\"date\"" | grep -om1 "\"date\":[0-9]\+,")"
+   | grep "\"date\"" | grep -om1 "\"date\":[0-9]\+," | head -n1)"
    [ ! -z "${timestamp}" ] && date "+%D %H:%M" -d "@${timestamp:7:-1}"
 }
 
+getreplytext() {
+  grep reply_to_message "${bot_tmpdir}${1}" && local replytext="$(tail -n 1 "${bot_tmpdir}${1}" | grep -om1\
+   '{\?\("text"\|"caption"\):"\(\\"\|[^"]*\)*"\(,\|}\)' | grep -v "^{" | head -n1)"
+  grep "^\"text\"" <<< "${text}" >/dev/null && utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode "${replytext:8:-2}"\
+  || {
+    grep "^\"caption\"" <<< "${text}" >/dev/null && utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode "${replytext:11:-2}"
+  }
+}
+
 # $1 is name of a bash array with the number of columns in every row such as ( 1 1 3 ) for a 3 row keyboard in which the first and second row have 1 column, and the third has 3
 # $2 is name of a bash array with as many text entries as there are columns, they are added left to right, up to down, to the rows/columns configuration passed as first arg
 # $3 is name of a bash array with as many data entries as there are columns, they are added left to right, up to down, to the rows/columns configuration passed as first arg
@@ -220,4 +229,5 @@ getmsg_content(){
   _REF[text]="$(gettext "${2}")"
   _REF[callback]="$(getcbk_data "${2}")"
   _REF[timestamp]="$(gettimestamp "${2}")"
+  local replytext="$(getreplytext "${2}")"; [ ! -z "${replytext}" ] && _REF[replytext]="$(getreplytext "${2}")"
 }