getRemoteFile

Returns information about a file by its remote ID; this is an offline request.
Can be used to register a URL as a file for further uploading, or sending as a message.

getRemoteFile(remote_file_id, file_type, callback, data)

Field	Type	Description
remote_file_id	string	Remote identifier of the file to get.
file_type	string	File type, if known.

Example

• Get information about file by its remote ID BQADBQADMwADZ6iIVP8uNDg5w69vAg.

  getRemoteFile(BQADBQADMwADZ6iIVP8uNDg5w69vAg)

  Response:

  {
    ["@type"] = "file",
    expected_size = 1027,
    id = 23,
    ["local"] = {
      ["@type"] = "localFile",
      can_be_deleted = false,
      can_be_downloaded = true,
      downloaded_prefix_size = 0,
      downloaded_size = 0,
      is_downloading_active = false,
      is_downloading_completed = false,
      path = ""
    },
    remote = {
      ["@type"] = "remoteFile",
      id = "BQADBQADMwADZ6iIVP8uNDg5w69vAg",
      is_uploading_active = false,
      is_uploading_completed = true,
      uploaded_size = 1027
    },
    size = 1027
  }