Can telegram bot also send files?

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2 years 2 months ago #23668 by prashant

Can telegram bot also send files? was created by prashant

Hellos,
Playing with telegram connection & package. I am able to send messages to a user, Can I also send files?

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2 years 2 months ago #23671 by admin

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Support for telegram was introduced a while ago and not a lot of customers are using it.

It is not possible to send files at the moment. However telegram API has this feature so it should be possible to add this functionality.

Having said that, it will take a while due to the amount of testing required

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2 years 2 months ago #23673 by prashant

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Hellos,
Thanks for the reply.

No testing needed for me. I would rather spend some time on WhatsApp integration. In India , WhatsApp is massive with its adoption in almost 25%+ of general public & it's the golden standard here.

We currently use messgebird as the service provider. I will be linking URL Logger to it soon and get few items moving.

For the telegram user , Telegram API does support file sending , this is the script which chatGPT cooked up , we can replace file_path with a variable from ETL and the file you want will sent to user

Code:

import asyncio
from telegram import Bot

# Your bot's token
TOKEN = '7040235760:'
# Your Telegram user ID
USER_ID = 68xxxxxxx

bot = Bot(TOKEN)

async def send_file():
    # Path to the file you want to send
    file_path = '/Users/prashant/Downloads/poheader.csv'
    with open(file_path, 'rb') as file:
        await bot.send_document(chat_id=USER_ID, document=file)
    print("File sent!")

# Running the async function using asyncio
if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(send_file())

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