I have created a Telegram Bot. As per the docs - https://core.telegram.org/bots any other telegram user can send messages to the bot
Users can interact with bots in two ways:
Send messages and commands to bots by opening a chat with them or by adding them to groups.
Now other users are being allowed to send messages, but those messages do not show on the bot chat. Am I missing to configure something?
Thanks,
Anand
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As a telegram bot api developer, I noticed a weird behaviour of the getUpdates() api method:
If the user have not interacted with the bot for a few days, then the next time it sends a message to the bot, the message does not get delivered via the long-poll.
The workaround is to "cleanup the chat" - then all of a sudden the messages get delivered again. But this workaround is ugly.
What can be the cause of this issue, and is there any "lighter" workaround that will not touch the chat history?
I have a telegram bot that I send messages to via Python. I would like another user to be able to see these messages as well. Can't seem to figure out how to do it, nor what to do?
I am able to send messages from python to Telegram, but I cant seem to find the reverse.
I need to get the message from telegram channel and send it to a certain server using Api. Server can consume that Api and that's not my question. I need to know if Telegram can generate that post request.
Your bot should be a member or administrator of that channel. And then your bot will receive an update containing channel_post.
Note: You can't join your bot to channels or groups unless you're the owner or administrator of the channel. (Bots themselves do not have the ability to join, you add them manually)
I want to delete all messages in telegram bot chat, without saving their ids to DB.
Telegram bot is written on node-telegram-api
I can see messages sent from normal users in group chat with getUpdates.
but no info from messages that other bots have sent.
Is there any method that I should use other than getUpdates to receive them too?
According to Bot FAQ, bots will not be able to see messages from other bots regardless of mode.