aiogram/docs/api/upload_file.md

How to upload file?

As says official Telegram Bot API documentation there are three ways to send files (photos, stickers, audio, media, etc.):

If the file is already stored somewhere on the Telegram servers or file is available by the URL, you don't need to reupload it. But if you need to upload new file just use subclasses of InputFile. Here is available three different builtin types of input file:

• #!python3 FSInputFile - uploading from file system
• #!python3 BufferedInputFile - uploading from buffer
• #!python3 URLInputFile - uploading from URL

!!! warning "Be respectful with Telegram" Instances of InputFile is reusable. That's mean you can create instance of InputFile and sent this file multiple times but Telegram is not recommend to do that and when you upload file once just save their file_id and use it in next times.

Upload from file system

By first step you will need to import InputFile wrapper:

from aiogram.types import FSInputFile

Then you can use it:

cat = FSInputFile("cat.png")
agenda = FSInputFile("my-document.pdf", filename="agenda-2019-11-19.pdf")

FSInputFile(...)

Argument	Type	Description
path	#!python3 Union[str, Path]	File path
filename	#!python3 Optional[str]	Custom filename to be presented to Telegram
chunk_size	#!python3 int	File chunks size (Default: 64 kb)

Upload from buffer

Files can be also passed from buffer (For example you generate image using Pillow and the want's to sent it to the Telegram):

Import wrapper:

from aiogram.types import BufferedInputFile

And then you can use it:

text_file = BufferedInputFile(b"Hello, world!", filename="file.txt")

BufferedInputFile(...)

Argument	Type	Description
buffer	#!python3 bytes	File path
filename	#!python3 str	Custom filename to be presented to Telegram (Required)
chunk_size	#!python3 int	File chunks size (Default: 64 kb)

Also you can read buffer from file:

file = BufferedInputFile.from_file("file.txt")

BufferedInputFile.from_file(...)

Argument	Type	Description
path	#!python3 Union[str, Path]	File path
filename	#!python3 Optional[str]	Custom filename to be presented to Telegram
chunk_size	#!python3 int	File chunks size (Default: 64 kb)

Upload from url

If you need to upload a file from another server, but the direct link is bound to your server's IP, or you want to bypass native upload limits by URL, you can use URLInputFile.

Import wrapper:

from aiogram.types import URLInputFile

And then you can use it:

image = URLInputFile("https://www.python.org/static/community_logos/python-powered-h-140x182.png", filename="logo.png")

URLInputFile(...)

Argument	Type	Description
url	#!python3 str	URL
filename	#!python3 Optional[str]	Custom filename to be presented to Telegram
chunk_size	#!python3 int	File chunks size (Default: 64 kb)
timeout	#!python3 int	Total timeout in seconds (Default: 30)

Related pages:

• Official documentation
• aiogram.types.InputFile
• How to download file?