# Just a little example of middleware handlers from telebot.asyncio_handler_backends import BaseMiddleware, CancelUpdate from telebot.async_telebot import AsyncTeleBot bot = AsyncTeleBot('TOKEN') class SimpleMiddleware(BaseMiddleware): def __init__(self, limit) -> None: self.last_time = {} self.limit = limit self.update_types = ['message'] # Always specify update types, otherwise middlewares won't work async def pre_process(self, message, data): if not message.from_user.id in self.last_time: # User is not in a dict, so lets add and cancel this function self.last_time[message.from_user.id] = message.date return if message.date - self.last_time[message.from_user.id] < self.limit: # User is flooding await bot.send_message(message.chat.id, 'You are making request too often') return CancelUpdate() self.last_time[message.from_user.id] = message.date async def post_process(self, message, data, exception): pass bot.setup_middleware(SimpleMiddleware(2)) @bot.message_handler(commands=['start']) async def start(message): await bot.send_message(message.chat.id, 'Hello!') import asyncio asyncio.run(bot.polling())