InputFile

class telegram.InputFile(obj, filename=None, attach=False, read_file_handle=True)[source]

Bases: object

This object represents a Telegram InputFile.

Use In

Available In

Changed in version 20.0:

  • The former attribute attach was renamed to attach_name.

  • Method is_image was removed. If you pass bytes to obj and would like to have the mime type automatically guessed, please pass filename in addition.

Parameters:

  • obj (file object | bytes | str) –

    An open file descriptor or the files content as bytes or string.

    Note

    If obj is a string, it will be encoded as bytes via obj.encode('utf-8').

    Changed in version 20.0: Accept string input.

  • filename (str, optional) – Filename for this InputFile.

  • attach (bool, optional) – Pass True if the parameter this file belongs to in the request to Telegram should point to the multipart data via an attach:// URI. Defaults to False.

  • read_file_handle (bool, optional) –

    If True and obj is a file handle, the data will be read from the file handle on initialization of this object. If False, the file handle will be passed on to the networking backend which will have to handle the reading. Defaults to True.

    Tip

    If you upload extremely large files, you may want to set this to False to avoid reading the complete file into memory. Additionally, this may be supported better by the networking backend (in particular it is handled better by the default HTTPXRequest).

    Important

    If you set this to False, you have to ensure that the file handle is still open when the request is made. In particular, the following snippet can not work as expected.

    with open('file.txt', 'rb') as file:
    input_file = InputFile(file, read_file_handle=False)

# here the file handle is already closed and the upload will fail
await bot.send_document(chat_id, input_file)

    Added in version 21.5.

input_file_content[source]

The binary content of the file to send.

Type:

bytes | IO

attach_name[source]

Optional. If present, the parameter this file belongs to in the request to Telegram should point to the multipart data via a an URI of the form attach://<attach_name> URI.

Type:

str

filename[source]

Filename for the file to be sent.

Type:

str

mimetype[source]

The mimetype inferred from the file to be sent.

Type:

str

property attach_uri[source]

URI to insert into the JSON data for uploading the file. Returns None, if attach_name is None.

property field_tuple[source]

Field tuple representing the contents of the file for upload to the Telegram servers.

Changed in version 21.5: Content may now be a file handle.

Return type:

Tuple[str, bytes | IO, str]