Implement Telegram Bot Long Polling in PHP for Local Development

Dev.to•Fri, Sep 18, 2026, 07:00 AM•2 min read

When developing Telegram bots locally, setting up public HTTPS webhooks usually requires third-party tunneling tools like Ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnels. Long polling via the getUpdates method is a simpler alternative for local development. It allows your local PHP script to pull updates directly ...

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