Unknown interaction

[everlyy]

I keep getting this error:
discord.errors.NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10062): Unknown interaction
and after some testing, I figured out it's because I'm taking too long to respond to the interaction, because I'm making a few web requests etc. is there a way to extent my period of time to respond to the interaction or something else?

[Bluesy1]

You can use the following to defer your response:

await interaction.response.defer()
# later
await interaction.followup.send(...)

Docs here
Note: the epehemerality of the response is set in defer()