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getUpdates

Use this method to receive incoming updates using long polling.

post/bot{token}/getUpdates

Path parameters

tokenstring required

Your Bot Token

Request body

offsetinteger

Identifier of the first update to be returned. Must be greater by one than the highest among the identifiers of previously received updates. By default, updates starting with the earliest unconfirmed update are returned. An update is considered confirmed as soon as getUpdates is called with an offset higher than its update_id. The negative offset can be specified to retrieve updates starting from -offset update from the end of the updates queue. All previous updates will forgotten.

limitinteger

Limits the number of updates to be retrieved. Values between 1—100 are accepted. Defaults to 100.

timeoutinteger

Timeout in seconds for long polling. Defaults to 0, i.e. usual short polling

Response

200

okboolean

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "result": [
    {
      "update_id": 123456789,
      "message": {
        "message_id": 1,
        "from": {
          "id": 1234567890,
          "first_name": "John",
          "last_name": "Doe",
          "username": "JohnDoe"
        },
        "chat": {
          "id": 1234567890,
          "first_name": "John",
          "last_name": "Doe",
          "username": "JohnDoe",
          "type": "private"
        },
        "date": 1459957719,
        "text": "/start start"
      }
    }
  ]
}