Google Cloud Functions + Telegram Bot – What am I doing wrong ? /u/yaroyoss Python Education

Hello, I’m new here so please excuse my noobie questions, but do help if you can !

I have deployed a Google Cloud Function that is triggered via HTTPS that allows unauthenticated invocations running Python 3.12 and the entry point is ‘main’ – the function deploys correctly and the webhook is set properly. My goal is very simple – I just want the Telegram Bot to respond back to me with any string I send to it via DMs. Here is the code I am deploying on Google Cloud Functions – https://paste.pythondiscord.com/72MA

The requirements.txt file contains:

python-telegram-bot==20.3

requests==2.31.0

Flask==2.3.3

There are no errors, however when I enter the /start command, nothing happens apart from the code that gets executed that is manually entered with my bots chat_id within the main() function being – send_message(6271402111, “Test message from Google Cloud Function.”) – found on line 78

Any further text input only executes the same code on line 78 within the main() function as shown in this screenshot – https://imgur.com/a/P0nMqRu

I’m having a hard time understanding why the python code refuses to co-operate. I’ve tried running this issue multiple times past GTP4o and GPTo1 but I’m still stuck here.

I will continue to search for the answer myself, but I’m really hoping someone experience can have a glance at this and possibly spot what to them may be an obvious mistake.

Thank you for your time.

Hello, I’m new here so please excuse my noobie questions, but do help if you can !

I have deployed a Google Cloud Function that is triggered via HTTPS that allows unauthenticated invocations running Python 3.12 and the entry point is ‘main’ – the function deploys correctly and the webhook is set properly. My goal is very simple – I just want the Telegram Bot to respond back to me with any string I send to it via DMs. Here is the code I am deploying on Google Cloud Functions – https://paste.pythondiscord.com/72MA

The requirements.txt file contains:

python-telegram-bot==20.3

requests==2.31.0

Flask==2.3.3

There are no errors, however when I enter the /start command, nothing happens apart from the code that gets executed that is manually entered with my bots chat_id within the main() function being – send_message(6271402111, “Test message from Google Cloud Function.”) – found on line 78

Any further text input only executes the same code on line 78 within the main() function as shown in this screenshot – https://imgur.com/a/P0nMqRu

I’m having a hard time understanding why the python code refuses to co-operate. I’ve tried running this issue multiple times past GTP4o and GPTo1 but I’m still stuck here.

I will continue to search for the answer myself, but I’m really hoping someone experience can have a glance at this and possibly spot what to them may be an obvious mistake.

Thank you for your time.