I don't want my bot to reply to offline messages

[MrsSAS]

When restarting my bot, it replies to all received messages since it was offline.
Reading the parameter description I saw that:
bot.polling(interval=1, skip_pending=True)
only replies to the last message. Investigating further, the skip_pending parameter is linked to the function get_updates(offset=-1), which makes sense, in fact when I set offset=-2 the bot replies to the last 2 messages, and so on...
But, what if I wanted to prevent the bot from repling any old messages? Because when I set offset=0, it still responds to all of them.
How can I solve this?

[coder2020official]

Hey!
Using skip_pending processes only last update, yes.
If you are so excited about skipping ALL updates, you can use delete_webhook, by passing drop_pending_updates=True.

Suggestion to your code
I recommend using bot.infinity_polling() instead of just polling. If you use simple polling, your bot may stop on system exception.
With infinity polling, this won't take place.

[MrsSAS]

Thanks for the suggestion but (in anticipation to implement a webhook), don't you think bot.infinity_polling() would spam a little bit too much to telegram servers?

[coder2020official]

yeah, it will spam telegram servers. But telegram servers allow that for now. You can use webhooks instead if you don't want to use polling

[MrsSAS]

Great, thanks a lot! Just one last question, among the different alternatives I can read on this page which one would you suggest to me for implementing a webhook (from your own experience)?

[coder2020official]

You can use run_webhooks (built-in func) which starts app using fastapi.
For smth more complicated i recommend using fastapi itself or any other framework such as flask