How to make notifications to the user in the bot?

Question

Python

In general, you need to make a notification to the user: so that the server once an hour, for example, accesses the site via requests and based on the json response - if true - do nothing, if false - send an error message.
The bot is on long poling, so while does not work, because the bot stops responding to other requests
How to implement it?

Answer 1

Run a separate cron script. Well, or in a separate thread.