send_message not sending message for pytelegrambotapi

Question

I am trying to make a simple tg bot in python using django and pyTelegramBotApi, which is answering "Hello" on a /start. I've set webhook, and bot is getting updates correctly, but when it comes to send_message it just goes trough and sends nothing.

@csrf_exempt
def update_bot(request):
    json_str = request.body.decode("UTF-8")
    update = types.Update.de_json(json_str)
    tele_bot.process_new_updates([update])
    return HttpResponse({'code': 200})


@tele_bot.message_handler(commands=['start'])
def start_message(message):
    print("sending message")
    print(tele_bot.send_message(message.chat.id, "Hello"))

And the console output is

sending message
[24/Dec/2020 10:54:46] "POST /bot/imagesmanager/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 24 '20 at 08:23

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I'm not sure what the error is because the message is not being printed, but I have been using this: https://api.telegram.org/{bot_id}/sendMessage since a long time now and it works perfectly. The documentation is very informative on how to use the api in this form.

answered Dec 24 '20 at 08:23

Prateek Jain

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yea, i've tried using telegram's api and it works fine, but idk why send_message doesn't work at all:/ – sudden_appearance Dec 24 '20 at 08:25
you might want to check your chat id, sometimes even a single character error causes a problem. – Prateek Jain Dec 24 '20 at 08:27
I did. Actually, i did take chat_id from my program to try to send message via tg api and as i said - it worked fine – sudden_appearance Dec 24 '20 at 08:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '20 at 09:50

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I've solved the issue. I have just read my token with \n at the end (found with repr(token)), idk why update worked properly, but simple strip helped me well enough)

answered Dec 24 '20 at 09:50

sudden_appearance

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send_message not sending message for pytelegrambotapi

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