Python-telegram-bot: How can I send self destructing photos with python telegram bot?

[kmahsi]

1900 # Issue I am facing

I need to send self-destructing photos in the chats. How should I do that?

[Bibo-Joshi]

Use JobQueue.run_once to delete the message after x seconds. Have a look at the wiki and this example.

[Poolitzer]

@Bibo-Joshi Because bots sadly dont have an option to send self destructing media, you will need to reproduce that behavior like Bibo showed you

[kmahsi]

Use JobQueue.run_once to delete the message after x seconds. Have a look at the wiki and this example.

Thanks. And is there a way to prevent user from saving the image? I want to delete image after x seconds and I want to be sure that user can't take screen shot from the display or neither save image in the gallery. Is this possible?

[Bibo-Joshi]

I guess not, but that would be out of scope of PTB anyway