How can I receive file in python-telegram-bot?

Question

I have a problem about file messages in python telegram bot. How can I receive file and read that file ? Or save it.

what did you try? Where is your code? There is [telegram.Voice.get_file](https://python-telegram-bot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/telegram.voice.html#telegram.Voice.get_file) — furas, Jun 08 '20 at 03:45

Tibebes. M · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-08T09:13:06.100

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You can:

Register a handler that listens to Document
get File object from the update (inside the listener using get_file)
then simply call .download() to download the document

Here a sample code to get you started:

from telegram.ext import Updater, MessageHandler, Filters

BOT_TOKEN = ' ... '

def downloader(update, context):
    context.bot.get_file(update.message.document).download()

    # writing to a custom file
    with open("custom/file.doc", 'wb') as f:
        context.bot.get_file(update.message.document).download(out=f)


updater = Updater(BOT_TOKEN, use_context=True)

updater.dispatcher.add_handler(MessageHandler(Filters.document, downloader))

updater.start_polling()
updater.idle()

edited Jun 08 '20 at 09:13

answered Jun 08 '20 at 07:59

Tibebes. M

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Thx bro it download in same dir? – DR8002 Jun 08 '20 at 08:13
Yes, but you can pass a custom path. check https://python-telegram-bot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/telegram.file.html?#telegram.File.download – Tibebes. M Jun 08 '20 at 08:15
a more question how can i change file name? – DR8002 Jun 08 '20 at 08:43
yes, pass a writable file handler as `out`. I've updated the answer to show you how to do it – Tibebes. M Jun 08 '20 at 08:59
i wrote this:` def file_(update:Update,context:CallbackContext): with open("file.txt","w") as f: context.bot.get_file(update.message.document).download(out=f)` but it didnt write anything in file.txt – DR8002 Jun 08 '20 at 09:09
sorry, it's "wb" not "w". use `open("file.txt","wb")` – Tibebes. M Jun 08 '20 at 09:13

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '23 at 12:54

Here is some changes for python-telegram-bot v20.

from telegram.ext import Application, MessageHandler, filters


async def downloader(update, context):
    file = await context.bot.get_file(update.message.document)
    await file.download_to_drive('file_name')



def main() -> None:
    application = Application.builder().token('BOT_TOKEN').build()

    application.add_handler(MessageHandler(filters.Document.ALL, downloader))

    application.run_polling()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

And you can filter by filetype too if needed. Here are the docs: https://docs.python-telegram-bot.org/en/stable/telegram.ext.filters.html — Endogen, Jul 26 '23 at 08:41

How can I receive file in python-telegram-bot?

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