Download files from not local mode

[Poolitzer]

The file path is like documents/file_5, but I cant figure out how to download it. It doesn't work like the cloud API suggests, I am getting a 404 not found error then. Am I missing something?

[levlam]

After getFile request the downloaded files are stored locally in the server working directory under the path returned in getFile response. After that the files can be served from that directory using any HTTP-server suitable for serving static files.

[Poolitzer]

so I have to run a separate process for serving the files, alright. Thanks for clearing that up.

[levlam]

@Poolitzer Yes. But you can usually use the same process, which is used as a TLS-terminating proxy.

[TopperBG]

Could be I miss something, but in that construction .getFile() returns me file_paht in form:
http://nginx:88/file/botTOKEN//var/lib/telegram-bot-api/TOKEN/documents/file_17.exe
Obviously doubled path and somekind concatenated ?
@Poolitzer how did you manage to get local file trough API ?

[levlam]

@TopperBG
Local Bot API server returns only "/var/lib/telegram-bot-api/TOKEN/documents/file_17.exe". It is your Bot API library, who adds the rest, because it doesn't know that the server is run in a local mode.