Notes
1. You will not be able to receive updates using
2. To use a self-signed certificate, you need to upload your public key certificate using
3. Ports currently supported for webhooks: 443, 80, 88, 8443.
If you're having any trouble setting up webhooks, please check out this amazing guide to webhooks.
Example: A poll bot for groups runs in privacy mode (only receives commands, replies to its messages and mentions). There could be two ways to create a new poll:
The last option is definitely more attractive. And if you use ForceReply in your bot's questions, it will receive the user's answers even if it only receives replies, commands and mentions - without any extra work for the user.