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How to use offset on Telegram bot API webHook – Telegram API

Since 2 days I’ve been exploring the Telegram bot API, which is pretty neat. But there is one thing I can’t figure out.

When you don’t use the webHook but the /getUpdates call, you can tell the API via the offset parameter which message where processed by the server.

But how do you do this with the webHook in place? I keep getting the same message as an update. Which results in the server spamming the user with the same message.

The solution I came up with is as follows:

  1. Receive an update from the webhook
  2. Save the update_id
  3. Reply to the user /sendMessage
  4. disable the webHook /setWebhook?url=
  5. Set the offset /getUpdates?offset={update_id+1}
  6. Reinstate the webHook /setWebhook?url=https://mywebhook.domain.com

There must be a better way right? Anyone?

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    Ok, problem solved. It appeared that just a 200 (OK) wasn't enough (the body of my response was null. I've added a body to the response {}, and know it works fine.


  2. 0

    What HTTP status code are you returning on the page handling your webhook? It is possible that Telegram is attempting to retry your webhook endpoint because it’s not receiving a status 200 (OK) from you.

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  3. 0

    use This on webHook to get data from telegram servers:

    // get the raw POST data
$rawData = file_get_contents("php://input");

// this returns null if not valid json
$jsonData = json_decode($rawData);
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  4. 0

    You must say to telegram that you get updates successfully with this:

     - 200 response code
 &
 - empty json like this {}
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