Hey everyone! I’m working on a Telegram bot using pyTelegramBotAPI and I’ve hit a roadblock. I want my bot to be able to save pictures that users send to it but I’m not sure how to do this without using the official Telegram bot API. Is there a workaround or alternative method to download these images? I’ve tried looking for solutions online but haven’t found anything helpful yet. Any tips or code examples would be really appreciated! Thanks in advance for your help!
I’ve found that using the telethon library can be an effective workaround. In my experience, after setting up a Telegram application to obtain your API credentials, you can log in as a user rather than a bot. Once you have established a connection, you can listen for incoming messages and trigger the download_media method when an image is received. This method served me well, although it requires careful consideration of Telegram’s terms and limitations. I hope this alternative proves useful in your project.
hey there! have u considered using mtproto? its a protocol telegram uses for client-server communication. u can implement it urself or use libraries like pyrogram. it lets u interact with telegram as a user account, so u can receive n save images. just be careful with API usage limits!
While the suggestions provided by others are valid, I would like to add an alternative perspective. Consider using the Telethon library to interact with Telegram’s API as a user rather than a bot, which offers greater flexibility for handling media files.
In practice, you would need to set up a Telegram application to obtain your API credentials, install Telethon via pip, create a client instance, and then implement an event handler for new messages. The download_media() method can then be used to save incoming images. This approach has been effective in my projects, balancing functionality with compliance to Telegram’s policies.