How to make only one request to pyTelegramBotAPI?

Question

Python

token='token'
bot=telebot.TeleBot(token)
@bot.message_handler(commands=['refresh'])
def ref_teleg(message):
    bot.send_message(chat.id, 'text')
bot.polling()

Is it possible to somehow make only one request, and not many (and continuously) like polling does?

My program should periodically check what is happening in the telegram, and then go on with "its own business", but because of polling, it will endlessly look at telegrams

Answer 1

You can, send the one request you want, don't call polling.
If you want to get updates, there is a getUpdates method

Answer 2

It works like this for me (I don't know how correct this implementation is):

async def send_message(message):
    await bot.send_message(chat_id, text=message)
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(send_message(message))