Caption chars length

[fatshotty]

• telegram-upload version: 0.4.0
• Python version: 3.8
• Operating System: ubuntu 20
• Dependencies list (run pip freeze):
  cffi==1.14.6
  click==8.0.1
  cryptg==0.2.post4
  hachoir==3.1.2
  pyaes==1.6.1
  pyasn1==0.4.8
  pycparser==2.20
  rsa==4.7.2
  telegram-upload==0.4.0
  Telethon==1.23.0

Description

I'm trying to upload file with a caption and thumbnail.
Everything works fine, but caption is truncated to 200chars

What I Did

Caption of the uploaded file is truncated to 200chars. Telegram allows 2-4000chars instead

is it possibile to add caption_chars_length to command-line arguments, in order to customize the caption length?

thanks in advance

[tissole]

In the folder telegram_upload search for files.py. Open it in a text editor and modify the line 21 CAPTION_MAX_LENGTH = 200 to a value that suits your needs, then save it.

[fatshotty]

thanks for reply

I saw the code and I found the solution. However I don't want modify the code. Is it possibile add a cli-argument to set the caption_chars_length?

thanks

[tissole]

I don't think is possible, I don't see anything in the documentation. It's up to @Nekmo to implement such a feature. By the way, how is your upload speed when using the script? In my case doesn't seem to pass the 1.5 MB/s (12 Mb/s), even if my connection supports more than that.

[fatshotty]

speed is the same of yours on my side.
However, telegram supports 4000chars in caption, I think.

Maybe should I fork and push a pull-request?
Hope @Nekmo can have a look into that :)

Thanks

[tissole]

Thanks for the answer, I hope that @Nekmo improves the upload speed in the next versions.
Regarding the captions, the limit is 1024 characters, messages have a 4096 chars limit. See this. You could do a pull request.

[fatshotty]

thanks for reply.

I send a pull request setting caption_length to 2000. Wait to talk with Nekmo and you to set the correct value :)

[tissole]

Is too much, TG won't allow it. The max length for captions is 1024. See line 44 from TG source.
I run tests with values of more than 1024 and is not working. I get an error "The caption is too long".

[fatshotty]

ok, I'm going to change the value and make a new pullrequest ;)

[fatshotty]

Hi,
i've fixed the caption_chars_length set to 1024
thanks

[Nekmo]

Fixed!