I’m facing difficulties with my Telegram bot. Whenever I try to link a newly made bot to my zlibrary account, it keeps showing ‘connection time out’ on the zlibrary website.
I’ve done some basic troubleshooting, like clearing the Telegram cache, but nothing has worked so far. The bot remains unresponsive.
Is there anyone else who has encountered similar issues with their Telegram bots?
UPDATE:
It’s working again! However, my previous bot is still not functional. After seeing other users’ comments on the issue, I was able to reconnect a new bot through the zlibrary official site, but I had to create a completely new one to link it to my account. For some reason, the old bot is still unresponsive.
Everything looks good now! I suggest creating a new bot and linking it to your zlibrary account if your old bot continues to have issues.
Had the same issue last month - turned out zlibrary was doing server maintenance. Connection timeouts usually happen when their auth servers get slammed or go down temporarily. Mine fixed itself after about 48 hours without me doing anything. But here’s the thing: bots made during these outages stay broken forever, even after the service comes back up. That’s why your old bot never worked again but the new one does. Pro tip: check zlibrary’s status page before making new bots so you don’t waste time creating dead ones during downtime.
Same thing happened to me, but I found a different solution. I had to completely revoke the old bot token in BotFather before creating a new one. Zlibrary doesn’t seem to like multiple tokens from the same account, even inactive ones. Just delete the broken bot entirely first, then create a fresh one - saved me hours of troubleshooting.
Had this exact problem a few weeks ago - super frustrating. The timeout seems tied to Telegram’s API limits or zlibrary’s rate limiting. What fixed it for me: wait 24 hours before making a new bot instead of trying right away. If you spam multiple bot creation attempts, you’ll hit connection issues more often. Also helped to use a different bot name format - I switched from simple names to unique identifiers with numbers. The whole thing’s pretty unstable, but waiting it out and creating fresh bots works best.
However, my previous bot is still not functional. After seeing other users’ comments on the issue, I was able to reconnect a new bot through the zlibrary official site, but I had to create a completely new one to link it to my account. For some reason, the old bot is still unresponsive.