Maybe a silly question, how to send gifs

[AAraKKe]

Hi, I have been using this tool for some time and although I don't know much about http communication it made making a simple bot really easy. Now I have updated the tool and I don't know anymore how to send documents with the Faraday support. I am trying to mimic what I see but haven't had any success.

I am trying to do something like this: bot.api.send_document(chat_id: dest, document: Faraday::UploadIO.new("file.gif","THING"))

but I don't know what to put in THING, or if it is the way to do it. Before I just plugged in a File and it worked perfectly. What is the right way of doing it?

[BitOfUniverse]

@AAraKKe a THING is mime type for file, try to use "image/gif" for gif you can learn more here about Faraday

[AAraKKe]

@BitOfUniverse thanks a lot, I tried several different types, but image/gif didn't work, that is why I was asking, maybe is something that I couldn't guess (I didn't know what mime types there were or that it was even a mime type hehe). Using "image/gif" I get this error:

Telegram API has returned the error. (error_code: "413", uri: "https://api.telegram.org/bottoken:token/sendDocument")

This happen with every gif I try to send.

[atipugin]

Looks like your file is too large (according 413 error code). Telegram has file size limitations (50mb per file). Anyway, following code works just fine for me:

bot.api.send_document(chat_id: message.from.id, document: Faraday::UploadIO.new('test.gif', 'image/gif'))

[AAraKKe]

I don't know how large is too large, but this happens with all gifs, even those which are less than a copule of Mb. I also read what's the 413 error but since Telegram said that the error codes are related to Api and they might change I dont know. In any case, I will try again with different gifs, I have more than 50 and I cannot send any of them.

Thanks.

El vie., 6 may. 2016 11:19, Alexander Tipugin [email protected] escribió:

Looks like your file is too large (according 413 error code). Telegram has file size limitations (50mb per file). Anyway, following code works just fine for me:

bot.api.send_document(chat_id: message.from.id, document: Faraday::UploadIO.new('test.gif', 'image/gif'))

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[macteo]

I'm sending gifs using the send_document endpoint instead of send_photo

bot.api.send_document(
          chat_id: chat_id,
          document: Faraday::UploadIO.new(file, 'image/gif')
        )

[aidinism]

i have same problem with video , and all files are less than 10 mb

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