How to receive file_id through python-telegram-bot?

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Danya02 picture Danya02 · Jun 30, 2016 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

I'm making a Telegram bot using python-telegram-bot, and I need some way to receive voice messages. For that, I need to download them, and to do that, I have to get their file_ids. However, the MessageHandler handles... well, messages, and Handler gives me a NotImplementedError. Is there a way to get the file_id?

Answer

Elad picture Elad · Dec 3, 2019

I know this question is old but I was facing a problem with this in the latest version (12+)

So it appears that the bot- pass_user_data in the callback function is deprecated and from now on you should use context based callbacks.

CallbackContext is an object that contains all the extra context information regarding an Update, error or Job.

to the new style using CallbackContext:

def voice_handler(update: Update, context: CallbackContext):
    file = context.bot.getFile(update.message.audio.file_id)
    file.download('./voice.ogg')

You can read more in the Transition-guide-to-Version-12.0

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