Why is my webhook not working? I do not get any data from telegram bot API. Here is the detailed explanation of my problem:
I got SSL cert from StartSSL, it works fine on my website (according to GeoCerts SSL checker), but still seems like my webhook to Telegram Bot API doesn’t work (despite it says that webhook was set I do not get any data).
I am making a webhook to my script on my website in this form:
https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/setWebhook?url=https://mywebsite.com/path/to/giveawaysbot.php
I get this text in response:
{"ok":true,"result":true,"description":"Webhook was set"}
So it must be working, but it actually doesn’t.
Here is my script code:
<?php
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
$botToken = "<token>";
$website = "https://api.telegram.org/bot".$botToken;
$update = file_get_contents('php://input');
$update = json_decode($update);
print_r($update); // this is made to check if i get any data or not
$chatId = $update["message"]["chat"]["id"];
$message = $update["message"]["text"];
switch ($message) {
case "/test":
sendMessage($chatId,"test complete");
break;
case "/hi":
sendMessage($chatId,"hey there");
break;
default:
sendMessage($chatId,"nono i dont understand you");
}
function sendMessage ($chatId, $message) {
$url = $GLOBALS[website]."/sendMessage?chat_id=".$chatId."&text=".urlencode($message);
file_get_contents($url);
}
?>
I don’t actually receive any data to $update. So webhook is not working. Why?
10
Answers
It may be the SSL cert. I had the same problem: Webhook confirmed but actually SSL cert borked.
This reddit thread was helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/3b4z1k/bot_api_recieving_nothing_on_a_correctly/
I had similar problem. Now solved.
The problem is possibly in a wrong public certificate. Please follow with attention instructions I propose in my project:
https://github.com/solyaris/BOTServer/blob/master/wiki/usage.md#step-4-create-self-signed-certificate
I was with this problem. I was trying to look everywhere and couldn’t find the solution for my problem, because people were all the time saying that the problem was the SSL certificate. But I found the problem, and that were a lot of things missing on the code to interact with the telegram API webhook envolving curl and this kind of stuff. After I looked in an example at the telegram bot documentation, I solved my problem. Look this example https://core.telegram.org/bots/samples/hellobot
This is because you are not setting the certificate like this
Check this link on how to set Telegram Self Signed Certificate
This may help who works with Laravel Telegram SDK.
I had a problem with self-signed webhook in Laravel 5.3.
After setup and getting OK result from Telegram with “Webhook was set” message, it didn’t work.
The problem was related to CSRF verification. So I added the webhook url to CSRF exceptions and now everything works like a charm.
Try this code. If you have a valid SSL on your web host and you have properly run the setWebhook, it should work (does for me). Make sure you create a file called “log.txt” and give write permission to it:
I had this problem too, after somehow the telegram didn’t run my bot, so I tried to renew the certificate and set web hooks again, but again it didn’t work, so I updated my VPS(yum update) and then renew my certificate and set web hooks again. after these it started working again.
I had this problem too. In my case was mistake in declaring my API method. I created GET method instead of POST at first.
Just another one moment, why your webhooks not work.
In my case the reason was in allowed_updates webhook parameter.
By calling :
You can see
It means, that your bot can’t react to your text messages, and you will not receive any webhooks!
You can note, that “allowed_updates” contains array. So, currently it will react only to inline button events (passed as keyboard layout!). According to the setWebhook documentation, allowed_updates is an “optional” parameter.
To start receieve text messages, you need to add “message” to your “allowed_updates” prop. To do it, just again set your webhooks and add it to query. Like here :
You will receive something like “url already added”, but don’t worry, allowed_updates will be updated even in this case. Just try type your message to bot and test your webhooks.
That’s all, now, telegram will send webhooks to each direct message from you to your bot. Hope, it helps someone.
In my case the error was due to the PHP configuration ( using cPanel )
[26-Jan-2021 09:38:17 UTC] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): https:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in /home/myUsername/public_html/mydomain.com/my_bot_file.php on line 40
and
[26-Jan-2021 09:38:17 UTC] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(https://api.telegram.org/bot<my-bot-id>/sendmessage?chat_id=647778451&text=hello charlie ! k99 ): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/myUsername/public_html/myDomain.com/my_bot_file.php on line 40
so – it is pretty self explanatory.
The
allow_url_fopen=0
var in the php configuration actually disables the requiered action.But anyhow your best bet is to look at the
error log
on your server and see if there are any other errors in the script or server config.