telegram.PassportData

class telegram.PassportData(data, credentials, bot=None, **_kwargs)

Bases: telegram.base.TelegramObject

Contains information about Telegram Passport data shared with the bot by the user.

Note

To be able to decrypt this object, you must pass your private_key to either telegram.Updater or telegram.Bot. Decrypted data is then found in decrypted_data and the payload can be found in decrypted_credentials’s attribute telegram.Credentials.payload.

Parameters

data (List[telegram.EncryptedPassportElement]) – Array with encrypted information about documents and other Telegram Passport elements that was shared with the bot.
credentials (telegram.EncryptedCredentials)) – Encrypted credentials.
bot (telegram.Bot, optional) – The Bot to use for instance methods.
**kwargs (dict) – Arbitrary keyword arguments.

data

Array with encrypted information about documents and other Telegram Passport elements that was shared with the bot.

Type: List[telegram.EncryptedPassportElement]

credentials

Encrypted credentials.

Type: telegram.EncryptedCredentials

bot

The Bot to use for instance methods.

Type: telegram.Bot, optional

classmethod de_json(data, bot): See telegram.TelegramObject.de_json().

property decrypted_credentials

Lazily decrypt and return credentials that were used: to decrypt the data. This object also contains the user specified payload as decrypted_data.payload.

Raises: telegram.TelegramDecryptionError – Decryption failed. Usually due to bad private/public key but can also suggest malformed/tampered data.
Type: telegram.Credentials

property decrypted_data

Lazily decrypt and return information: about documents and other Telegram Passport elements which were shared with the bot.

Raises: telegram.TelegramDecryptionError – Decryption failed. Usually due to bad private/public key but can also suggest malformed/tampered data.
Type: List[telegram.EncryptedPassportElement]

to_dict(): See telegram.TelegramObject.to_dict().