I have a dilemma regarding my telegram bot. Let's say I have to create a function that will ask, every user connected to the bot, one time per week/month, a question:
def check_the_week(bot, update):
reply_keyboard = [['YES', 'NO']]
bot.send_message(
chat_id=update.message.chat_id,
text=report,
reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardMarkup(reply_keyboard, one_time_keyboard=True)) # sends the total nr of hours
update.reply_text("Did you report all you working hour on freshdesk for this week?",
ReplyKeyboardMarkup(reply_keyboard, one_time_keyboard=True))
if update.message.text == "YES":
update.message.reply_text(text="Are you sure?",
reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardMarkup(reply_keyboard, one_time_keyboard=True))
# Asks confirmation
if update.message.text == "YES":
update.message.reply_text(text="Thank you for reporting your working hours in time!")
elif update.message.text == "NO":
update.message.reply_text(text="Please, check you time reports and add missing")
elif update.message.text == "NO":
update.message.reply_text(text="Please, check you time reports and add missing")
I want this function to be triggered every week. I was thinking about using JobQueue. The problem is that in this case the function should have two parameters- bot AND job_queue, but no update:
def callback_30(bot, job):
bot.send_message(chat_id='@examplechannel',
text='A single message with 30s delay')
j.run_once(callback_30, 30)
How can I create a Job Scheduler (or any other solution) in telegram bot to be trigger my function once a week? p.s. No "while True"+time.sleep() solutions please. The loop just stuck forever, I tried it.
You need to use the context parameter when defining the job in your function. Look at this example:
from telegram.ext import Updater, CommandHandler, MessageHandler, Filters, InlineQueryHandler
def sayhi(bot, job):
job.context.message.reply_text("hi")
def time(bot, update,job_queue):
job = job_queue.run_repeating(sayhi, 5, context=update)
def main():
updater = Updater("BOT TOKEN")
dp = updater.dispatcher
dp.add_handler(MessageHandler(Filters.text , time,pass_job_queue=True))
updater.start_polling()
updater.idle()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Now in your call back function wherever you need update.
type job.context
instead.