from telebot.async_telebot import AsyncTeleBot bot = AsyncTeleBot('TOKEN') @bot.message_handler(commands=['start', 'help']) async def send_welcome(message): await bot.reply_to(message, "Howdy, how are you doing?") @bot.message_handler(func=lambda message: True) async def echo_all(message): await bot.reply_to(message, message.text) import asyncio asyncio.run(bot.polling(skip_pending=True)) # to skip updates