download_media()

Client.download_media()

Download the media from a message.

Usable by Users Bots
Parameters:

  • message (:obj:`~pyrogram.types.Message` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Audio` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Document` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Photo` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Sticker` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Video` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Animation` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Voice` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.VideoNote` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Story` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.PaidMediaInfo` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.PaidMediaPhoto` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.PaidMediaVideo` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Thumbnail` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.StrippedThumbnail` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.PaidMediaPreview` | :obj:`~pyrogram.types.Story` | ``str``) – Pass a Message containing the media, the media itself (message.audio, message.video, …) or a file id as string.

  • file_name (``str``, *optional*) – A custom file_name to be used instead of the one provided by Telegram. By default, all files are downloaded in the downloads folder in your working directory. You can also specify a path for downloading files in a custom location: paths that end with “/” are considered directories. All non-existent folders will be created automatically.

  • in_memory (``bool``, *optional*) – Pass True to download the media in-memory. A binary file-like object with its attribute “.name” set will be returned. Defaults to False.

  • block (``bool``, *optional*) – Blocks the code execution until the file has been downloaded. Defaults to True.

  • idx (``int``, *optional*) – In case of a PaidMediaInfo with more than one paid_media, the zero based index of the PaidMedia to download. Raises IndexError if the index specified does not exist in the original message.

  • progress (``Callable``, *optional*) – Pass a callback function to view the file transmission progress. The function must take (current, total) as positional arguments (look at Other Parameters below for a detailed description) and will be called back each time a new file chunk has been successfully transmitted.

  • progress_args (``tuple``, *optional*) – Extra custom arguments for the progress callback function. You can pass anything you need to be available in the progress callback scope; for example, a Message object or a Client instance in order to edit the message with the updated progress status.

Other Parameters:

  • current (``int``) – The amount of bytes transmitted so far.

  • total (``int``) – The total size of the file.

  • *args (``tuple``, *optional*) – Extra custom arguments as defined in the progress_args parameter. You can either keep *args or add every single extra argument in your function signature.

Returns:

  • ``str`` | ``None`` | :obj:`io.BytesIO` (On success, the absolute path of the downloaded file is returned,)

  • otherwise, in case the download failed or was deliberately stopped with

  • stop_transmission(), None is returned.

  • Otherwise, in case in_memory=True, a binary file-like object with its attribute “.name” set is returned.

  • If the message is a PaidMediaInfo with more than one paid_media containing minithumbnail and idx is not specified, then a list of paths or binary file-like objects is returned.

Raises:

  • IndexError – In case of wrong value of idx.:

  • ValueError – If the message doesn’t contain any downloadable media.:

  • RPCError –

Example

Download media to file

# Download from Message
await app.download_media(message)

# Download from file id
await app.download_media(message.photo.file_id)

# Keep track of the progress while downloading
async def progress(current, total):
    print(f"{current * 100 / total:.1f}%")

await app.download_media(message, progress=progress)

Download media in-memory

file = await app.download_media(message, in_memory=True)

file_name = file.name
file_bytes = bytes(file.getbuffer())