telegram.InputMediaPhoto

class telegram.InputMediaPhoto(media, caption=None, parse_mode=None, caption_entities=None, filename=None)

Represents a photo to be sent.

Parameters

media (str | filelike object | bytes | pathlib.Path | telegram.PhotoSize) –
File to send. Pass a file_id to send a file that exists on the Telegram servers (recommended), pass an HTTP URL for Telegram to get a file from the Internet. Lastly you can pass an existing telegram.PhotoSize object to send.

Changed in version 13.2: Accept bytes as input.
filename (str, optional) –
Custom file name for the photo, when uploading a new file. Convenience parameter, useful e.g. when sending files generated by the tempfile module.

New in version 13.1.
caption (str, optional) – Caption of the photo to be sent, 0-1024 characters after entities parsing.
parse_mode (str, optional) – Send Markdown or HTML, if you want Telegram apps to show bold, italic, fixed-width text or inline URLs in the media caption. See the constants in telegram.ParseMode for the available modes.
caption_entities (List[telegram.MessageEntity], optional) – List of special entities that appear in the caption, which can be specified instead of parse_mode.

type

photo.

media

Photo to send.

caption

Optional. Caption of the document to be sent.

parse_mode

Optional. The parse mode to use for text formatting.

caption_entities

Optional. List of special entities that appear in the caption.