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Emin Mastizada
Emin Mastizada

Reputation: 1405

post multipart image to api

Posting with postman:

Request Payload:

------WebKitFormBoundaryiPTu5XrX314NHpan
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="photo"; filename="example1.jpg"
Content-Type: image/jpeg


------WebKitFormBoundaryiPTu5XrX314NHpan--

In headers:

Content-Type:multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryiPTu5XrX314NHpan

Need to send images from python app, but getting 400 error everytime.

Tries:

req = urllib2.Request(photoURL, None, {'User-agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5'})
imgFile = cStringIO.StringIO(urllib2.urlopen(req).read())
datagen, headers = multipart_encode({"photo": Image.open(imgFile)})
request = urllib2.Request(postPhotoAPI, datagen, headers)
request.add_header("Authorization", authKey)
urllib2.urlopen(request).read()

Result: 400

Same in requests.post and some other post functions (also for base64).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1282

Answers (1)

Federico Ponte
Federico Ponte

Reputation: 91

I always use python requests library when i want to make http calls with python.

You need to do something like this:

files = {'photo': ('image.png', open('image.png', 'rb'), 'image/png')}
r = requests.post(photoURL, header={'User-agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5', 'Authorization': authKey} files=files)
print r.text

You can read more here.

Upvotes: 2

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