Railway keeps putting my Telegram bot to sleep, it stops answering until I redeploy

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   Olu @oluDiscord admin · uses Railway

   Helped

   Railway doesn't sleep a worker on a paid plan but the trial one does. Also long polling drops silently sometimes and the library won't reconnect unless you let it. Two things to check: your plan, and whether you're on python-telegram-bot's run_polling() which handles reconnects, or a hand-rolled loop that doesn't.

   Sep 5rain, Nour and Pete H. agree
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   rain @rainPython developer · uses Python and Telegram bots

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   Mine was the hand-rolled loop thing. One requests.get with no timeout hung forever after a network blip. Added timeout=30 and a try/except around it and it's been fine since.

   Sep 6Nour and Olu agree
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   Nour @nouruses Telegram bots, Python and Railway

   It was the loop. I'd written my own with a bare requests.get and the code I pasted in from ChatGPT never had a timeout. Swapped to run_polling and no gaps in three days. Thanks both.

   Sep 8rain and Olu agree
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   Pete H. @pete-hRetired electrician · uses Python

   If it's really being slept, switch to a webhook instead of polling, then it doesn't matter if the process pauses between messages. More setup though.

   Sep 6Olu agrees