diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a3618a5..843f1c0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@ build/
 # Mystic etc.
 /etc/
 
-# IntelliJ IDEA.
+# IntelliJ IDEA. / VSCode
 /.idea/
 /out/
 *.iml
+.vscode/
 
 # Mac OS useless files.
 .DS_Store
@@ -29,4 +30,10 @@ Thumbs.db
 desktop.ini
 
 # logs
-log/
\ No newline at end of file
+log/
+
+# Env
+.env
+
+# Dev mode
+mailru_im_bot.egg-info
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 76cd617..a715e0a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <img src="logo_bot.png" width="100" height="100">
 
+> This repo is a fork of original [mailru-im-bot](https://github.com/mail-ru-im/bot-python). 
+
 # VK Teams Bot API for Python
 [![Python package](https://github.com/mail-ru-im/bot-python/actions/workflows/python-package.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/mail-ru-im/bot-python/actions/workflows/python-package.yml)
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/github/mail-ru-im/bot-python/graph/badge.svg?token=ObUFRWSyGv)](https://codecov.io/github/mail-ru-im/bot-python)
diff --git a/bot/__init__.py b/bot/__init__.py
index 8774c3b..e064f47 100644
--- a/bot/__init__.py
+++ b/bot/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 
-__version__ = "0.0.22"
+__version__ = "0.0.23"
 
 # Set default logging handler to avoid "No handler found" warnings.
 logging.getLogger(__name__).addHandler(logging.NullHandler())
diff --git a/bot/bot.py b/bot/bot.py
index 59a7887..697585a 100644
--- a/bot/bot.py
+++ b/bot/bot.py
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ def send_text(self, chat_id: str, text: str, reply_msg_id=None, forward_chat_id=
             timeout=self.timeout_s
         )
 
-    def send_file(self, chat_id, file_id=None, file=None, caption=None, reply_msg_id=None, forward_chat_id=None,
+    def send_file(self, chat_id, file_id=None, filename=None, file_content=None, caption=None, reply_msg_id=None, forward_chat_id=None,
                   forward_msg_id=None, inline_keyboard_markup=None, parse_mode=None, format_=None):
         if parse_mode and format_:
             raise Exception("Cannot use format and parseMode fields at one time")
@@ -328,11 +328,11 @@ def send_file(self, chat_id, file_id=None, file=None, caption=None, reply_msg_id
                 "format": format_to_json(format_)
             }
         )
-        if file:
-            request.method = "POST"
-            request.files = {"file": file}
-
-        return self.http_session.send(request.prepare(), timeout=self.timeout_s)
+        # Detects if file contents provided
+        if file_content:
+            request.method = 'POST'
+            request.files = {'file': (filename, file_content) if filename else file_content}
+        return self.http_session.send(request=request.prepare(),timeout=self.timeout_s)
 
     def send_voice(self, chat_id, file_id=None, file=None, reply_msg_id=None, forward_chat_id=None,
                    forward_msg_id=None, inline_keyboard_markup=None):
diff --git a/example/file_bot.py b/example/file_bot.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..389616e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/file_bot.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+from bot.bot import Bot
+from bot.handler import MessageHandler
+import os
+
+TOKEN = os.getenv("VK_TOKEN")
+URL = os.getenv("VK_URL")
+
+bot = Bot(token=TOKEN, api_url_base=URL)
+
+
+def message_cb(bot: Bot, event):
+    # Send text data
+    bot.send_file(chat_id=event.from_chat,file_content="Some Text", filename="Text.txt")
+    # Send text with no name
+    bot.send_file(chat_id=event.from_chat,file_content="Some Text")
+    # Send binary data from File
+    with open('logo_bot.png', 'rb') as bf:
+        bot.send_file(chat_id=event.from_chat,file_content=bf)
+    # Send binary data from bytes
+    with open('logo_bot.png', 'rb') as bf:
+        bot.send_file(chat_id=event.from_chat,file_content=bf.read(), filename="My File.png")
+
+
+
+bot.dispatcher.add_handler(MessageHandler(callback=message_cb))
+bot.start_polling()
+bot.idle()