API send photo to telegram bot by URL

Question

hi I want to send a photo by telegram API to my bot and I must use API URL to send and can not use library.

I tried:

token = " "
chat_id = " "
pic = ("C:\Windows\pic\hello.jpg")

url = requests.post("https://api.telegram.org/bot"+token+"/sendPhoto?chat_id="+chat_id+"&photo="+pic)

print(url)

And result:

{"ok":false,"error_code":400,"description":"Bad Request: wrong HTTP URL specified"}

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66051610/api-send-photo-to-telegram-bot-by-url

Answer 1

Firstly, It is sendPhoto not sendphoto.

Here is the link for docs for your reference.

Notice that you are giving the url for post requets as: https://api.telegram.org/bot"+token+"/sendphoto?chat_id="+chat_id+"&photo="+pic but it actually should be https://api.telegram.org/bot"+token+"/sendPhoto?chat_id="+chat_id+"&photo="+pic

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Secondly, you are trying to send a locally hosted image. Its a bit different to send locally hosted images than to send the URLs for online images.

You have to send the image file as a dictionary along with the post request like this:

import requests

img = open(your/local/image, 'rb')
TOKEN = 
CHAT_ID = 

url = f'https://api.telegram.org/bot{TOKEN}/sendPhoto?chat_id={CHAT_ID}'


print(requests.post(url, files={'photo': img}))

Output:

<Response [200]>

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