send message without context/update

[yasuoiwakura]

hi there,

i'm running a bot to check the weather hourly and then post it to 1-2 channel if conditions meet (in my case: if the active Pokemon Go raidboss is boosted by the current weather then tell players)

But i have to start the bot manually using /set or something like that to

• get a context for context.bot.send_message(chat_id=db['chats']['TestG']['chat_id'], text=text)
  how to send messages without "context"? Just send a message to the given channel?

so how can i just send a message from a plain function without any given args?
`def msg():
text=f"my fancy text"
send_message(chat_id=-100123456, text=text)
return None

updater = Updater(TOKEN, persistence=persistence)
dispatcher = updater.dispatcher
dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler("help", help))

if name == 'main':
main()`

The point is, i want to run hourly updates and THEN decide whom to send the messages.
i currently use the examples pollbot.py timerbot.py but they all use context to some user message HAS to trigger the timer to start running.

so why i just cannot just use updater.send_message() just want to use the bot and not any handler/context/update...

[Bibo-Joshi]

so why i just cannot just use updater.send_message() just want to use the bot and not any handler/context/update...

You can (basically): Updater.bot, Updater.dispatcher, Dispatcher.bot

You don't even need Updater or Dispatcher at all. See the introduction ;)