Type Alias InputFileLike

Describes types that can be used as an input to any methods that send media (like TelegramClient.sendPhoto)

Can be one of:

• Buffer, which will be interpreted as raw file contents
• File (from the Web API)
• ReadStream (for Node.js/Bun, from the fs module)
• ReadableStream (from the Web API, base readable stream)
• Readable (for Node.js/Bun, base readable stream)
• BunFile (from Bun.file())
• Deno.FsFile (from Deno.open() in Deno)
• UploadedFile returned from TelegramClient.uploadFile
• tl.TypeInputFile and tl.TypeInputMedia TL objects
• string with a path to a local file prepended with file: (non-browser only) (e.g. file:image.jpg)
• string with a URL to remote files (e.g. https://example.com/image.jpg)
• string with TDLib and Bot API compatible File ID.
• URL (from the Web API, will be fetch()-ed if needed; file:// URLs are not available in browsers)
• td.RawFullRemoteFileLocation (parsed File ID)