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Telegram bot notifying about new ads on Ebay-Kleinanzeigen.de
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Any downside of using polling mode? #4

Closed jerptrs closed 2 years ago

jerptrs commented 3 years ago

Heyo,

I want to run the bot in polling mode, since I don't want to expose my home IP and don't want to setup any domain / Cloudflare thing.

So my question is, is there a downside of using the polling mode as "production" mode?

okainov commented 3 years ago

Thanks for using the bot!

Basically, I think the main webhook advantage is reducing load on tg server and also getting faster/instant replies. But I obviously don't think you plan to use this bot for really long time (months or so), so for the actual problem of getting stuff done polling should work perfectly. Also when youaing for yourself only, you probably don't really care about a few seconds delay, so this should be also fine. => I don't see big issues using polling in this case.