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Ogene Somto
Ogene Somto

Reputation: 11

Running telethon on pythonanywhere

try to run a basic scripts that adds members to a telegram group over pythoneverywhere server. I installed the main package which is telethon in the server. but i am getting the error in the image below. what am i not doing right? error message is given below

21:02 ~/Villians TV/Villians5/TeleGram-Scraper-master $ python3 villians5.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "villians5.py", line 17, in <module>
    client.connect()
  File "/home/somti13/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telethon/sync.py", line 39, in syncified
    return loop.run_until_complete(coro)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/asyncio/base_events.py", line 608, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "/home/somti13/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telethon/client/telegrambaseclient.py", line 472, in connect
    if not await self._sender.connect(self._connection(
  File "/home/somti13/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telethon/network/mtprotosender.py", line 125, in connect
    await self._connect()
  File "/home/somti13/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telethon/network/mtprotosender.py", line 250, in _connect
    raise ConnectionError('Connection to Telegram failed {} time(s)'.format(self._retries))
ConnectionError: Connection to Telegram failed 5 time(s)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1063

Answers (1)

Glenn
Glenn

Reputation: 5776

The mtproto connection type for telegram does not work for free accounts on PythonAnywhere. Only http(s) connections out of PythonAnywhere will work for free accounts.

Upvotes: 1

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