import traceback from telethon.interactive_telegram_client import (InteractiveTelegramClient, print_title) def load_settings(path='api/settings'): """Loads the user settings located under `api/`""" settings = {} with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file: for line in file: value_pair = line.split('=') left = value_pair[0].strip() right = value_pair[1].strip() if right.isnumeric(): settings[left] = int(right) else: settings[left] = right return settings if __name__ == '__main__': # Load the settings and initialize the client settings = load_settings() client = InteractiveTelegramClient( session_user_id=settings.get('session_name', 'anonymous'), user_phone=str(settings['user_phone']), api_id=settings['api_id'], api_hash=settings['api_hash']) print('Initialization done!') try: client.run() except Exception as e: print('Unexpected error ({}): {} at\n{}'.format( type(e), e, traceback.format_exc())) finally: print_title('Exit') print('Thanks for trying the interactive example! Exiting...') client.disconnect()