How to send an image from a telegram bot

Question

I have my bot working by now, but the thing is it can only send text. I have seen in the Bot API there are functions to send photos, videos... but I can\'t get it to work. S

Answer 1

I have included two functions, one is good for sending local images, the other one is good for sending remote images.

def sendImage():
    url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot/sendPhoto";
    files = {'photo': open('/path/to/img.jpg', 'rb')}
    data = {'chat_id' : "YOUR_CHAT_ID"}
    r= requests.post(url, files=files, data=data)
    print(r.status_code, r.reason, r.content)

def sendImageRemoteFile(img_url):
    url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot/sendPhoto";
    remote_image = requests.get(img_url)
    photo = io.BytesIO(remote_image.content)
    photo.name = 'img.png'
    files = {'photo': photo}
    data = {'chat_id' : "YOUR_CHAT_ID"}
    r= requests.post(url, files=files, data=data)
    print(r.status_code, r.reason, r.content)