How to send photo on telegram bot

Question

i'm just implementing a simple bot who should send some photos and videos to my chat_id. Well, i'm using python, this is the script

import sys
import time
import random
import datetime
import telepot

def handle(msg):
    chat_id = msg['chat']['id']
    command = msg['text']

    print 'Got command: %s' % command

    if command == 'command1':
        bot.sendMessage(chat_id, *******)
    elif command == 'command2':
        bot.sendMessage(chat_id, ******)
    elif command == 'photo':
        bot.sendPhoto(...)

bot = telepot.Bot('*** INSERT TOKEN ***')
bot.message_loop(handle)
print 'I am listening ...'

while 1:
    time.sleep(10)

In the line bot.sendphoto I would insert the path and the chat_id of my image but nothing happens.

Where am I wrong?

thanks

Answer 1

If you have local image path:

bot.send_photo(chat_id, photo=open('path', 'rb'))

If you have url of image from internet:

bot.send_photo(chat_id, 'your URl')

Answer 2

Just using the Requests lib you can do it:

def send_photo(chat_id, file_opened):
    method = "sendPhoto"
    params = {'chat_id': chat_id}
    files = {'photo': file_opened}
    resp = requests.post(api_url + method, params, files=files)
    return resp

send_photo(chat_id, open(file_path, 'rb'))

Answer 3

I've tried also sending from python using requests. Maybe it's late answer, but leaving this here for others like me.. maybe it'll come to use.. I succeded with subprocess like so:

def send_image(botToken, imageFile, chat_id):
        command = 'curl -s -X POST https://api.telegram.org/bot' + botToken + '/sendPhoto -F chat_id=' + chat_id + " -F photo=@" + imageFile
        subprocess.call(command.split(' '))
        return