How to send a file using POST method to TelegramBot?

Question

I want to send a file with the post method, but I don't know what's wrong with my code I have chat_id, file_id, and every requirement parameters this is a sample code for sending voice via POST Request

import requests

my_data = {'chat_id': '72600457' ,'file_id': 'AwADBAADPAYAAvFWCVFZFfPyZdGLfhYE'}
my_url = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot<MY TOKEN>/sendVoice'
request.post(url=my_url, data=my_data)

when I run the code, no error happens. But nothing is shown from the bot; This file_id works with GET METHOD and I could send text with POST METHOD, But for files it seems it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Check documentation for sendVoice - it doesn't use name file_id but voice

data = {'chat_id': '72600457', 'voice': 'AwADBAADPAYAAvFWCVFZFfPyZdGLfhYE'}

If you use file ID then you can use POST but also GET

And you should get response from server to see information about wrong request

import requests

token = '<MY TOKEN>'

data = {'chat_id': '72600457', 'voice': 'AwADBAADPAYAAvFWCVFZFfPyZdGLfhYE'}
url = f'https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/sendVoice'

#response = requests.post(url, data=data)
response = requests.get(url, params=data)

print(response.json())

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By the way: there is module python-telegram-bot . GitHub: python-telegram-bot