how to set a folder to save telethon sessions in it

Question

I have a code:

client = TelegramClient(
    "new_session", 
    api_id=CONFIG["client_api_id"], 
    api_hash=CONFIG["client_api_hash"]
)

so how i can save the "new_session.session" in another folder

Answer 1

Just pass the path to the client, relative or absolute.

client = TelegramClient(
    "relative/path/to/new_session", 
    api_id=CONFIG["client_api_id"], 
    api_hash=CONFIG["client_api_hash"]
)

client = TelegramClient(
    "/absolute/path/to/new_session", 
    api_id=CONFIG["client_api_id"], 
    api_hash=CONFIG["client_api_hash"]
)

To avoid errors by paths with / or \ among different systems, I prefer to use the pathlib module.

from pathlib import Path

client = TelegramClient(
    str(Path("path/to/new_session")), 
    api_id=CONFIG["client_api_id"], 
    api_hash=CONFIG["client_api_hash"]
)

The path to the session file must exist before trying to instantiate the TelegramClient.