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Saeed
Saeed

Reputation: 7370

Telegram Bot File Download Suddenly response 403

I have a telegram bot and it was working without any problem since yesterday( 5/9/2018 ) but now it receives 403 when trying to download a file. I didn't see any change in Bot API documents. Even when I try to download the file manually I get 403. The problem isn't seen in my other bots.

I know the process (first making a getFile request and then generate the direct file path from file_path in the response) but when I try to download the file from generated url (https://api.telegram.org/file/bot<token>/<file_path>) it returns 403.

More Info:

I send the file by my own user to the bot, so neither the file message is deleted nor the file owner is deactivated or cleared history or somthing

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1393

Answers (2)

Saeed
Saeed

Reputation: 7370

It seemed that there were a bug in Telegram Service. Cause the problem disappeared a month later. I contacted telegram and ask them for the reason but I got no answer, by the way, as the problem solved without any change in my code, I think it was a bug on Telegram Service.

Upvotes: 1

ihoru
ihoru

Reputation: 1980

This is possible if the file was deleted from a dialog by user himself. In this case Telegram delete files physically from storage and throw 403 error.

I also suspect that Telegram also delete all files from dialog history if user clear history (but I'm not 100% sure in that, but it's quite logically).

If this answer doesn't help you, provide more information: * What type of chat? * Who sent that file (user or bot)?

Upvotes: 0

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