How to get Telegram audio (music) album cover using Telethon API client
I want to get the URL or bytes of the Telegram audio documents (music) album cover using MTProto API and Telethon Python lib, but I could not find such a thing by checking audio message properties. There was a thumbs property for the message attached media property that was null.
Note: When I download a media using client.download_media the cover is attached to the file, but I do not want to download it.
It's not through MTproto. each Telegram client gets it manually from a different provider, I'm going with Android implementation.
small is chat UI thumb, other is for player size. This is only a test for the track in your screenshot.
Deal with commented parts yourself and pass a valid message object, and use aiohttp instead and make this async func.
import requests
def get_cover(msg, limit=1, small=False):
# if not (f := msg.file) and not all((f.title, f.performer)): return
# performer, title = f.performer, f.title
performer, title = 'Sixthells', 'Mayhem'
url = f"https://itunes.apple.com/search?term={performer} - {title}&entity=song&limit={limit}"
headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14A5297c Safari/602.1"}
req = requests.post(url, headers=headers)
if 200 >= req.status_code < 300:
if (x := req.json())['resultCount']:
small_url = x['results'][0]['artworkUrl100']
file_url = small_url if small\
else small_url.replace('100x100', '600x600')
# Telegram default. can increase 600x600.
return small_url, file_url
print(*get_cover(msg=None), sep='\n')
