How to make an interval on a telegram bot command?

Question

Bots

The user executes some command. If 5 seconds have not passed since the last request, the bot writes: wait so many seconds before executing the next command. using telebot

Answer 1

Good afternoon, to restrict certain commands, you need the threading module, the easiest way is:

import threading
def test()
     #options
def thread2():  # Поток 2
    thr2 = Thread(target=test)
    thr2.start()

Example on vk_api:

mes = event.object.message['text']
if mes == 'ваша_команда':
  try:
   test()  #Пользователь один раз использует команду
   time.sleep(5) #Лимит на 5 секунд
  except:
        pass

PS at the end of the code add:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    thread2()

Bottom line: the method is simple and effective, the user writes the command once, then the restriction and can be used again.

Answer 2

The best solution is to record the time the command was last used. Here I answered how to make an interval of 1 hour. In your case, .hour needs to be changed to .second and 1 to 5.