Send Message without Event

[L-U-C-K-Y]

Hi mullwar

Many thanks for your awesome API!

I'm trying to use your API to send simple notifications without an event and I'm using following code:
bot.sendMessage(<user-id>, "message");

But I get following error:
(node:5735) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): [object Object]

I've created the bot object as following:
const TeleBot = require('telebot'); const bot = new TeleBot({ token: '<token>, // Required. Telegram Bot API token. webhook: { // Optional. Use webhook instead of polling. key: './cert/key.pem', // Optional. Private key for server. cert: './cert/cert.pem', // Optional. Public key. url: 'https://127.0.0.1', // HTTPS url to send updates to. host: '127.0.0.1', // Webhook server host. port: 88 // Server port. } });

I'm listening via an express server.

Could you help me out?

Thank you very much!!

[mullwar]

Hi,

Hm, this should work fine. Try this code:

const TeleBot = require('telebot');

const TOKEN = 'TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';
const USER = 000000;

const bot = new TeleBot(TOKEN);

bot.sendMessage(USER, "Hello!");

To get idea whats going on, let's print server response to console log:

bot.sendMessage(USER, "Testing!").then((response) => {
    console.log('Ok:', response);
}).catch((error) => {
    console.log('Error:', error);
});

[L-U-C-K-Y]

Hi mullwar

Thanks for your fast response, I actually got it working with your code when the full error showed up!

Fix: I had to first start the bot in Telegram itself...

Thank you!

[mullwar]

Nice! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Also, you can join to our Telegram community group: https://goo.gl/gXvm12

[h22k]

Hi,

Hm, this should work fine. Try this code:

const TeleBot = require('telebot');

const TOKEN = 'TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';
const USER = 000000;

const bot = new TeleBot(TOKEN);

bot.sendMessage(USER, "Hello!");

To get idea whats going on, let's print server response to console log:

bot.sendMessage(USER, "Testing!").then((response) => {
    console.log('Ok:', response);
}).catch((error) => {
    console.log('Error:', error);
});

it worked for me. thank you