python - How to send photo on telegram bot

Question

i'm just implementing a simple bot who should send some photos and videos to my chat_id. Well, i'm using python, this is the script

import sys
import time
import random
import datetime
import telepot

def handle(msg):
    chat_id = msg['chat']['id']
    command = msg['text']

    print 'Got command: %s' % command

    if command == 'command1':
        bot.sendMessage(chat_id, *******)
    elif command == 'command2':
        bot.sendMessage(chat_id, ******)
    elif command == 'photo':
        bot.sendPhoto(...)

bot = telepot.Bot('*** INSERT TOKEN ***')
bot.message_loop(handle)
print 'I am listening ...'

while 1:
    time.sleep(10)

In the line bot.sendphoto I would insert the path and the chat_id of my image but nothing happens.

Where am I wrong?

thanks

Answer 1

If you have local image path:

bot.send_photo(chat_id, photo=open('path', 'rb'))

If you have url of image from internet:

bot.send_photo(chat_id, 'your URl')