Hitting rate limit on GetUpdates. Seeking for way forward.

[MrVolot]

I keep getting such errors:

Failed to fetch updates - TelegramRetryAfter: Telegram server says - Flood control exceeded on method 'GetUpdates'. Retry in 5 seconds.
Original description: Too Many Requests: retry after 5
(background on this error at: https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq#my-bot-is-hitting-limits-how-do-i-avoid-this)

I know that the best option to avoid this would be to set up the webhook. However, I was wondering if there is any other way to avoid hitting rate limits and still use long polling?

Thanks in advance for the input and feedback.

[JrooTJunior]

You should do nothing with this error.

getUpdates method has no actual rate-limit. This error means that the Telegram Bot API Server is restarting and request should be retried in 5 seconds and this operation is already handled by aiogram itself in the same way as any other network issues - retrying request and notifined in the logs to helps to understand why your bot is not handling new events until server will be still alive.

aiogram/aiogram/dispatcher/dispatcher.py

Lines 213 to 239 in a37deff

	try:
	updates = await bot(get_updates, **kwargs)
	except Exception as e:
	failed = True
	# In cases when Telegram Bot API was inaccessible don't need to stop polling
	# process because some developers can't make auto-restarting of the script
	loggers.dispatcher.error("Failed to fetch updates - %s: %s", type(e).__name__, e)
	# And also backoff timeout is best practice to retry any network activity
	loggers.dispatcher.warning(
	"Sleep for %f seconds and try again... (tryings = %d, bot id = %d)",
	backoff.next_delay,
	backoff.counter,
	bot.id,
	)
	await backoff.asleep()
	continue
	# In case when network connection was fixed let's reset the backoff
	# to initial value and then process updates
	if failed:
	loggers.dispatcher.info(
	"Connection established (tryings = %d, bot id = %d)",
	backoff.counter,
	bot.id,
	)
	backoff.reset()
	failed = False