Telebot Python - how to send photos group

Question

I'm trying to send photos from disk with media group and pyTelegramBotAPI (latest version 4.10.0)

import telebot
from telegram import InputMediaPhoto
from telegram.constants import ParseMode
bot = telebot.TeleBot(API_KEY)
all_photos = []
IMAGE_FILE_PATH = "images/image.jpg"
current_image_file = open(IMAGE_FILE_PATH, 'rb')
all_photos.append(InputMediaPhoto(
           media = current_image_file,
           parse_mode = ParseMode.HTML,
           caption = "Sample <b>Text</b>"
))
all_photos.append(InputMediaPhoto(
           media = current_image_file,
           parse_mode = ParseMode.HTML,
           caption = "Sample <b>Text</b>"
))
bot.send_media_group(CHAT_ID, all_photos)

That code return error: *** telebot.apihelper.ApiTelegramException: A request to the Telegram API was unsuccessful. Error code: 400. Description: Bad Request: there are no messages to send

How it can be fixed?

Answer 1

from telegram import InputMediaPhoto

InputMediaPhoto needs to be imported from telebot.types

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Here an example based on your code:

import telebot
from telebot.types import InputMediaPhoto

CHAT_ID=123456
API_KEY='85916......'

bot = telebot.TeleBot(API_KEY)

all_photos = []

for pic in [ "./photo1.png", "./photo2.png" ]:

    current_image_file = open(pic, 'rb')
    mediaPhoto = InputMediaPhoto(current_image_file, "Sample <b>Text</b>")

    all_photos.append(mediaPhoto)

bot.send_media_group(CHAT_ID, all_photos)

Which results in this message send by the Bot: