MadelineProto/old_docs/API_docs_v33/methods/upload_getFile.md

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title: upload.getFile
description: You cannot use this method directly, use the upload, download_to_stream, download_to_file, download_to_dir methods instead; see https://docs.madelineproto.xyz for more info
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## Method: upload.getFile  
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**You cannot use this method directly, use the upload, download_to_stream, download_to_file, download_to_dir methods instead; see https://docs.madelineproto.xyz for more info**
Fixed update handling, now usernames or bot api ids can be passed as parameters instead of Peer, inputPeer, Channel, User (and other) objects, fixed bugs and typos. 2016-12-30 16:32:25 +01:00			`---`
Fixes to the documentation 2017-01-19 23:02:27 +01:00			`title: upload.getFile`
Documentation rework (#349) * Documentation rework * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Documentation fixes * Login as bot through web/cli API, allow using invite links in joinChannel, full invite links in importChatInvite and checkChatInvite, non-invite links in importChatInvite * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Logging fixes * Build docs * Add methods to modify start template, bugfix to logging and keyboard conversion * Add TL documentator * Document MTProto methods * Documenting methods... * 7% documented * Bugfixes * Update docs * Update docs * Simplify file management * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback * Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media * Update docs * Document new file functions * Fix links * Fix links * Update bot.php to use event loop * Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop * Build docs * Better docs * Fixes to secret chats * Almost finished updating docs * Bugfixes, implemented infinite loop for loop() method, almost finished docs * Finish writing docs * Add automatic documentation builder script * Finished writing docs 2018-03-20 12:48:05 +01:00			`description: You cannot use this method directly, use the upload, download_to_stream, download_to_file, download_to_dir methods instead; see https://docs.madelineproto.xyz for more info`
Fixed update handling, now usernames or bot api ids can be passed as parameters instead of Peer, inputPeer, Channel, User (and other) objects, fixed bugs and typos. 2016-12-30 16:32:25 +01:00			`---`
Fixes to the documentation 2017-01-19 23:02:27 +01:00			`## Method: upload.getFile`
Fixed update handling, now usernames or bot api ids can be passed as parameters instead of Peer, inputPeer, Channel, User (and other) objects, fixed bugs and typos. 2016-12-30 16:32:25 +01:00			`[Back to methods index](index.md)`


Documentation rework (#349) * Documentation rework * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Documentation fixes * Login as bot through web/cli API, allow using invite links in joinChannel, full invite links in importChatInvite and checkChatInvite, non-invite links in importChatInvite * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Logging fixes * Build docs * Add methods to modify start template, bugfix to logging and keyboard conversion * Add TL documentator * Document MTProto methods * Documenting methods... * 7% documented * Bugfixes * Update docs * Update docs * Simplify file management * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback * Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media * Update docs * Document new file functions * Fix links * Fix links * Update bot.php to use event loop * Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop * Build docs * Better docs * Fixes to secret chats * Almost finished updating docs * Bugfixes, implemented infinite loop for loop() method, almost finished docs * Finish writing docs * Add automatic documentation builder script * Finished writing docs 2018-03-20 12:48:05 +01:00			`You cannot use this method directly, use the upload, download_to_stream, download_to_file, download_to_dir methods instead; see https://docs.madelineproto.xyz for more info`
Added custom TL exception trace, reduced memory usage, fixed fetching of dialog list 2017-07-26 08:30:48 +02:00