telegraf-ignore-old-messages

Ignores old messages in Telegram chats.

Why? POV:

Your bot was off for an hour • Each of 1000 users sent 2 messages in that time • Bot wakes up and gets all the updates • Tries to reply to 2000 messages simultaneously • most probably crashes the server

Quick start

First, run npm i telegraf-ignore-old-messages. Then, in your Telegraf app:

const { Telegraf } = require('telegraf')
const ignoreOldMessages = require('telegraf-ignore-old-messages')

const bot = new Telegraf(process.env.BOT_TOKEN)

const skipAfter = 5
// the message skipping interval in minutes. Defaults to 1.

bot.use(
  ignoreOldMessages(skipAfter)
)

// ...

bot.launch()

ignoreOldMessages should be connected first, before all the other message-related middlewares

Caught a Bug?

1. Fork this repository to your own GitHub account and then clone it to your local device
2. Link the package to the global module directory: npm link
3. Within the Telegraf app you want to test your local development instance of telegraf-ignore-old-messages, just link it to the dependencies: npm link telegraf-ignore-old-messages. Instead of the default one from npm, Node.js will now use your clone of the middleware!