How to upload an image to wordpress.com through REST API in python

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  fadookadoo · Member · Nov 13, 2023 at 12:15 am

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  I am trying to upload an image to my wordpress.com site (not WP installed on my own site) using WordPress’ REST API in python. There are a few examples of how to do this on SO when the WordPress site is hosted by the user. But I could not find any example when the site is on wordpress.com. I tried to follow the example of a similar problem here and used the code below. I tried url = 'https://public-api.wordpress.com/wp/v2/sites/' + domain + '/media' as the access URL but got a 400 (malformed) response code.

  I generated wp_token as

  wordpress_credentials = wordpress_user + ':' + wordpress_password
  wordpress_token = base64.b64encode(wordpress_credentials.encode())
  wp_token = wordpress_token.decode('utf-8')

  wordpress_password here is the app password.

  How do I debug why I am getting the 400 response? Appreciate any help.

  import json, os, subprocess
  def wp_upload_image2(domain, wp_token, img_path):
  # Form the url
      url = 'https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/' + domain + '/media/new'
  
  # Extract the filename and the extension from the img_path
     extension = img_path[img_path.rfind('.')+1 : len(img_path)]
     print("img_path: ", img_path, "Filename: ", img_path, "extension: ", extension)
  
  # Now form the header
      headers = {
          'Authorization': 'BEARER ' + wp_token,
      }
  
      try:
          with open(img_path, 'rb') as fp:
              print("Successfully opened file!")
              files = {
                 'media[]': fp,
              }
              rs = requests.post(url, headers=headers, files=files)
              print("Response from WP: ", rs)
              return(rs)
          except IOError as e:
              print(f"Couldn't open file ({e})")
  

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