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Troubleshooting & Maintenance

Troubleshooting

  • Truncated or unsent messages — Special characters in files/out/telegram.html may interfere with HTML parsing. The formatter escapes &, <, > automatically; if you hand-edited the file, replace & with &amp; and remove any unsupported tags (<ul>, <li>, <br>, <p>). Use plain-text bullet characters instead.
  • ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests' — The virtual environment isn't activated. Run source env-telegram-bot/bin/activate first.
  • Message not delivered to a specific group — Verify the chat ID at https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourBOTToken>/getUpdates. If wrong, fix it in files/groups.txt.
  • A run got stuck for a long time — Older versions had no network timeout; the current version times out (10s connect / 30s read) and moves on. If a group shows TIMEOUT — delivery UNCERTAIN, see Reliability.
  • The next run wants to send to everyone again — The results file reflects the last run. For a new message, that's expected — choose Start fresh. For finishing an interrupted run, choose Resume. See Resume.

Maintenance

Keep dependencies current:

pip list --outdated                 # check for outdated packages
pip install --upgrade <package>     # upgrade one
pip freeze > requirements.txt       # record current versions