Code for checking out the timeout of answerCallbackQuery of the Telegram bot API. After ~15 seconds you get the Telegram error QUERY_ID_INVALID

test_timeout.py

import logging
import time

from telegram import InlineKeyboardButton, InlineKeyboardMarkup
from telegram.error import BadRequest
from telegram.ext import Updater, CommandHandler, CallbackQueryHandler

BOT_TOKEN = "<BOT_TOKEN>"

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', level=logging.INFO)

updater = Updater(token=BOT_TOKEN)
dp = updater.dispatcher
counter = 10


def send_inline_keyboard(bot, update):
    chat_id = update.effective_message.chat.id
    text = "Test"
    b1 = InlineKeyboardButton("b1", callback_data="b1")
    keyboard = InlineKeyboardMarkup([[b1]])

    bot.sendMessage(chat_id, text=text, reply_markup=keyboard)


def callback_handler(bot, update):
    global counter
    orig_chat_id = update.callback_query.message.chat.id
    orig_message_id = update.callback_query.message.message_id
    callback_query_id = update.callback_query.id

    time.sleep(counter)

    text = "Test successful for {} second/s".format(counter)

    try:
        bot.answerCallbackQuery(callback_query_id=callback_query_id, text=text)
        bot.editMessageText(chat_id=orig_chat_id, message_id=orig_message_id, text=text)
        counter += 1
    except BadRequest as e:
        logger.error(e)
        if str(e) == "Query_id_invalid":
            logger.info("Test *not* successful for {} seconds".format(counter))


dp.add_handler(CommandHandler("test", send_inline_keyboard))
dp.add_handler(CallbackQueryHandler(callback_handler))

updater.start_polling()
logger.info("Bot started as @{}".format(updater.bot.username))
updater.idle()