Telethon: OperationalError: database is locked

Question

Apologies if it is a silly question.

I am trying telethon for the first time and it fails to synchronize with my telegram API.

I get an IP address when I ty

Answer 1

You have 2 problems here, first problem is related to authentication i guess, i will talk about database lock problem :

Session name that you have passed is already in use or active hence locked.

It becomes session file name if you use string as a parameter like here you have passed "name", this is one way to create a session.

other wise you can use telethon.sessions.abstract.Session object and pass it as parameter , this is second way.

And third way, you can simply pass None.

If it’s None, the session will not be saved, and you should call log_out() when you’re done.

client =  TelegramClient(None, api_id, api_hash)

Hope this helps.