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ColinShark
ColinShark

Reputation: 1131

Calling a Telegram Token from an external file

I couldn't seem to find anything regarding this and I know I had a solution months ago. I want to write a Telegram Bot with python-telegram-bot to download videos from any (legal) website and send it to the user.

The Bot should ask the User whether he wants a Video, Audio(mp3) or a GIF(mp4 w/o audio). This should happen via Inline Keyboard. I'm getting away from my initial question...

I don't want to have the Token inside the script, as I might share it with others for more specific help. So how do I call the token from an external "token.txt" to be used within my python script?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 697

Answers (1)

Michael H.
Michael H.

Reputation: 3483

You mean something like this?

import os
with open(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + '/token.txt') as file:
    TOKEN = file.readline().strip()
updater = Updater(TOKEN)

I'm assuming that this is inside the "runner" script which shall be in the same directory as the token text file. The dirname/realpath stuff is to make it work even if you call the runner script from another directory.

I do the same thing with my bot and I added the token.txt to .gitignore ;-)

Upvotes: 1

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