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Good afternoon, I recently deployed my Telegram bot on PythonAnywhere using WEBHOOK technology.

Everything worked perfectly.

I replaced part of the webhook path with dots. To insert this into the message subject.

91.108.5.4 - - [07/Nov/2025:21:26:51 +0000] "POST /webhook/1cb4b47e6.........7977705b1e9d7d60ec6e HTTP/1.1" 200 2 "-" "-" "91.108.5.4" response-time=0.762
91.108.5.4 - - [08/Nov/2025:03:04:59 +0000] "POST /webhook/1cb4b47e6.........7705b1e9d7d60ec6e HTTP/1.1" 200 2 "-" "-" "91.108.5.4" response-time=0.482
91.108.5.4 - - [08/Nov/2025:03:05:02 +0000] "POST /webhook/1cb4b47e6........b1e9d7d60ec6e HTTP/1.1" 200 2 "-" "-" "91.108.5.4" response-time=0.223
91.108.5.4 - - [08/Nov/2025:11:34:44 +0000] "POST /webhook/1cb4b47.......d60ec6e HTTP/1.1" 200 2 "-" "-" "91.108.5.4" response-time=0.929

Everything is fine in the error file; I fixed all errors when deploying the bot.

At this time

08/Nov/2025:11:34:44 +0000

the last request came from Telegram

I thought that maybe the webhook was broken, but using my Python script, I set up an address to receive responses and requests from Telegram.

04:44 ~/my_telegram_bot (master)$ python3 setup_webhook.py
Status: 200
Response: {'ok': True, 'result': True, 'description': 'Webhook is already set'}

But after that, no new requests were received.

Everything is fine in the server log file as well.

2025-11-07 14:13:08 *** ПОЛЬЗОВАТЕЛЬ НАЖАЛ КОМАНДУ 'START' ***
2025-11-07 21:26:50 *** ПОЛЬЗОВАТЕЛЬ НАЖАЛ КОМАНДУ 'START' ***
2025-11-08 03:04:59 *** ПОЛЬЗОВАТЕЛЬ НАЖАЛ КОМАНДУ 'START' ***
2025-11-08 03:05:02 *** ПОЛЬЗОВАТЕЛЬ НАЖАЛ КОМАНДУ 'START' ***
2025-11-08 11:34:43 *** ПОЛЬЗОВАТЕЛЬ НАЖАЛ КОМАНДУ 'START' ***

The last thing I worked on was configuring the MySQL client in my code, as well as working on the bot's database queries. After the new changes, I stopped receiving new requests from Telegram (perhaps they had stopped coming earlier, but I only noticed it while testing my new code).

But I canceled the new code, and nothing changed. Even with the working code, no responses are coming in. But, in my opinion, it's not even about the code. Even with a non-working code, the request from Telegram should be coming to the server. Whether I can process it or not is my problem, but the requests are not coming in.

I apologize in advance if anything is unclear. I used DeepL Translator to write this message.

You cannot use a process in a console to accept webhooks. You must do that in your web app. There is nothing preventing requests from reaching your web app. It looks like your web app is receiving the requests, but just returning a 500 error.

Thanks for your reply, Glen. Yes, requests are indeed coming in and returning a 500 response. It's just that my logs weren't working the whole time, and I couldn't figure out what was causing the malfunction. Yes, I know that webhooks work through a web application. My script simply sets the address to which I want to receive requests from Telegram.

The answer journals are working again, thank you.

@whynot thanks for letting us know!