marcl / telegram-test-bot

A test Telegram bot using serverless functions with Vercel for deployment

👋 Hello! I'm Marc Littlemore

Hello! I'm a Senior Software Engineering Manager with extensive experience in leading high-performing teams and delivering innovative solutions across both startup and enterprise environments. Over the past 8 years, I have refined my management skills at BBC, Sony, and several dynamic startups like Netlify.

I'm an ex-veteran of the video games industry, having spent almost 20 years working on video games, mostly for Sony PlayStation. See my games list here.

• 📀 Music production: I've been a DJ since 1988 and spent a lot of time playing house music to clubbers in the UK and Germany. I spend a lot of my free time making electronic music in Ableton Live.
• 🌱 Learning: I'm always learning about new technologies, how to be a better leader, and how to build and market digital products.
• 💬 Ask me about: Anything you need help with! Always happy to help out.
• 👉🏻 Pronouns: he/him

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telegram-test-bot's Issues

Webhook works just once

Hi Marc, first of all I want to thank you for your repositories, they are helping me. My name is Henrique and I'm from Brazil and I'm having difficulties with the Telegram Bot using webhooks.
I deployed it on Vercel, however, after setting the URL, it only works once.

I define the webhook, then use the getWebhookInfo endpoint and get the following return:

{
"ok": true,
"result": {
"url": "<my_url>",
"has_custom_certificate": false,
"pending_update_count": 0,
"max_connections": 40,
"ip_address": "<my_ip>"
}
}

However, when performing a test (deleting the message sent to the Bot), it works, and then it doesn't work anymore. it works exactly 1 time. after that, when using getWebhookInfo again, I get the following return:

{
"ok": true,
"result": {
"url": "",
"has_custom_certificate": false,
"pending_update_count": 1
}
}

my url just disappears

I didn't find anything similar in the forums, neither from Vercel nor from telegram, I'm lost, do you have any insights on this subject?