Function _make_request

telebot/apihelper.py:70–172

Makes a request to the Telegram API. :param token: The bot's API token. (Created with @BotFather) :param method_name: Name of the API method to be called. (E.g. 'getUpdates') :param method: HTTP method to be used. Defaults to 'get'. :param params: Optional parameters. Should be

(token, method_name, method='get', params=None, files=None)

def _make_request(token, method_name, method='get', params=None, files=None):
    """
    Makes a request to the Telegram API.
    :param token: The bot's API token. (Created with @BotFather)
    :param method_name: Name of the API method to be called. (E.g. 'getUpdates')
    :param method: HTTP method to be used. Defaults to 'get'.
    :param params: Optional parameters. Should be a dictionary with key-value pairs.
    :param files: Optional files.
    :return: The result parsed to a JSON dictionary.
    """
    if not token:
        raise Exception('Bot token is not defined')
    if API_URL:
        # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
        request_url = API_URL.format(token, method_name)
    else:
        request_url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot{0}/{1}".format(token, method_name)

    logger.debug("Request: method={0} url={1} params={2} files={3}".format(method, request_url, params, files).replace(token, token.split(':')[0] + ":{TOKEN}"))
    read_timeout = READ_TIMEOUT
    connect_timeout = CONNECT_TIMEOUT

    if files:
        files_copy = dict(files)
        # process types.InputFile
        for key, value in files_copy.items():
            if isinstance(value, types.InputFile):
                files[key] = (value.file_name, value.file)
            elif isinstance(value, tuple) and (len(value) == 2) and isinstance(value[1], types.InputFile):
                files[key] = (value[0], value[1].file)

    
    if files and format_header_param:
        fields.format_header_param = _no_encode(format_header_param)
    if params:
        if 'timeout' in params:
            read_timeout = params.pop('timeout')
            connect_timeout = read_timeout
        if 'long_polling_timeout' in params:
            # For getUpdates. It's the only function with timeout parameter on the BOT API side
            long_polling_timeout = params.pop('long_polling_timeout')
            params['timeout'] = long_polling_timeout
            # Long polling hangs for a given time. Read timeout should be greater that long_polling_timeout
            read_timeout = max(long_polling_timeout + 5, read_timeout)

    params = params or None # Set params to None if empty
    result = None

    if CUSTOM_REQUEST_SENDER:
        # noinspection PyCallingNonCallable
        result = CUSTOM_REQUEST_SENDER(
            method, request_url, params=params, files=files,
            timeout=(connect_timeout, read_timeout), proxies=proxy)
    elif RETRY_ON_ERROR and RETRY_ENGINE == 1:
        got_result = False
        current_try = 0
        while not got_result and current_try<MAX_RETRIES-1:
            current_try+=1