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.. _sessions:
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Session Files
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==============
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The first parameter you pass the constructor of the
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``TelegramClient`` is the ``session``, and defaults to be the session
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name (or full path). That is, if you create a ``TelegramClient('anon')``
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instance and connect, an ``anon.session`` file will be created on the
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working directory.
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These JSON session files contain the required information to talk to the
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Telegram servers, such as to which IP the client should connect, port,
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authorization key so that messages can be encrypted, and so on.
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These files will by default also save all the input entities that you’ve
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seen, so that you can get information about an user or channel by just
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their ID. Telegram will **not** send their ``access_hash`` required to
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retrieve more information about them, if it thinks you have already seem
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them. For this reason, the library needs to store this information
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offline.
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The library will by default too save all the entities (users with their
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name, username, chats and so on) **in memory**, not to disk, so that you
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can quickly access them by username or phone number. This can be
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disabled too. Run ``help(client.session.entities)`` to see the available
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methods (or ``help(EntityDatabase)``).
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If you’re not going to work without updates, or don’t need to cache the
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``access_hash`` associated with the entities’ ID, you can disable this
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by setting ``client.session.save_entities = False``.
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If you don’t want to save the files as JSON, you can also create your
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custom ``Session`` subclass and override the ``.save()`` and ``.load()``
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methods. For example, you could save it on a database:
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.. code-block:: python
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class DatabaseSession(Session):
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def save():
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# serialize relevant data to the database
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def load():
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# load relevant data to the database
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You should read the ``session.py`` source file to know what “relevant
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data” you need to keep track of.
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