How to send file from server using telebot?

Question

I made a bot that sends files from an external server with a URL.

I want the bot to send files directly from your server.

What am I doing wrong? Why didn't the open() command work?

import telebot

bot = telebot.TeleBot("Token")

@bot.message_handler(commands=['start','help'])
def send_start_message(message):
    bot.reply_to(message, "Hi.")

@bot.message_handler(func=lambda m: True)
def echo_all(message):
    print(message.text)
    duck = open('duck.png','r')
    bot.send_photo(message.chat.id, duck)
    bot.send_message(message.chat.id, "hi")

bot.polling()

Answer 1

You'll need to tell python3 to use binary mode;

duck = open('duck.png', 'rb')

Read more about open()

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Minimal working example to send local image:

import telebot

bot = telebot.TeleBot("<YOUR-TOKEN-HERE>")
cid = <YOUR-ID-HERE>

img = open('image.jpg', 'rb')
bot.send_photo(cid, img)