Is it possible to send scheduled messages?

[adriangalilea]

I inspected the send_message function and there's no notion of scheduling a message like you can manually do as an user.

Is this something that bot's can not do and needs to be managed manually?

Thank you.

[anorprogrammer]

Yes, you can use apscheduler to schedule a message in bot

example

[adriangalilea]

Well, I know I can schedule it externally and manage it myself.

The question is if I can do that using the built-in method telegram has, so that I'm certain even if I stop my bot, the message will be delivered, this is crucial.

[JrooTJunior]

Bot API has no such kind of methods to schedule messages, so, that's mean you should use any external schedule mechanisms like apscheduler, cron, systemd timers or any other.

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api