How to implement message processing by Telebot bot only in private messages?

Question

Python

Hello, is there any way to implement the bot so that it works only through private messages? For example, he is in the chat, but he does not need to execute commands when writing them in a general chat, but only when writing in private messages.

Answer 1

Check what type of chat the message came from?

@bot.message_handler(commands=['start'])
def send_start(message):

    if message.chat.type == 'private':
        # ...