Telethon: OperationalError: database is locked

Question

Apologies if it is a silly question.

I am trying telethon for the first time and it fails to synchronize with my telegram API.

I get an IP address when I ty

Answer 1

To solve the infamous

OperationalError: database is locked

error caused by sqllite3, one solution is to find the .session file created the first time you ran the code and delete it. Telethon puts those files in the same folder as your Python code or Jupyter Notebook. Or alternatively, you could use Python to get rid of the file automatically:

import os
import sys
os.chdir(sys.path[0])

if f"{SESSION_NAME}.session" in os.listdir():
    os.remove(f"{SESSION_NAME}.session")

assuming you are using the SESSION_NAME string variable to store the session name parameter of the TelegramClient() function.