Sending Media Messages
======================


Sending media from URL
----------------------

.. code-block:: python
    :caption: Media message from URL
    :linenos:

    from pywa import WhatsApp

    wa = WhatsApp(phone_id='972123456789', token='xxxxx')
    recipient = '972987654321'

    # - From URL
    wa.send_image(
        to=recipient,
        image='https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/10/01/10/44/animal-468228_1280.jpg'
    )

Sending media from local file
-----------------------------

.. code-block:: python
    :caption: Media message from local file
    :linenos:

    from pywa import WhatsApp

    wa = WhatsApp(phone_id='972123456789', token='xxxxx')
    recipient = '972987654321'

    # - From local file
    wa.send_video(
        to=recipient,
        video='/path/to/video.mp4'
    )

Sending media from file id
--------------------------

.. code-block:: python
    :caption: Media message from file id
    :linenos:

    from pywa import WhatsApp

    wa = WhatsApp(phone_id='972123456789', token='xxxxx')
    recipient = '972987654321'

    audio_id = wa.upload_media(media='/path/to/audio.ogg', mime_type='audio/ogg')
    wa.send_audio(
        to=recipient,
        audio=audio_id
    )

Sending media from bytes
------------------------

.. code-block:: python
    :caption: Media message from bytes
    :linenos:

    from pywa import WhatsApp
    import requests

    wa = WhatsApp(phone_id='972123456789', token='xxxxx')
    recipient = '972987654321'

    res = requests.get('https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/10/01/10/44/animal-468228_1280.jpg')
    wa.send_document(
        to=recipient,
        document=res.content,
        filename='animal.jpg'
    )