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How to get the total MB size of all media data using Telethon

As the title says, how do I get the total MB size of all media data (photos, videos, ect.) from a Telegram Channel using Telethon?

I figured out I could use data = await client(functions.messages.SearchRequest(...)) to get the data of a channel, but it seems like when I try to strip the data with data.media.document.size, it only gets the sizes of some media files, and not all? How do I get for all media types?

Solution

  • Using client.iter_messages you can then get the Message.file which has a File.size. In v1:

    total_size = 0
async for message in client.iter_messages(chat):
    if message.file:
        total_size += message.file.size
        print('current total:', total_size)