Using Python Requests to send file and JSON in single request

Question

I\'m trying to POST to an API (Build using SlimPHP) which accepts an image along with additional image meta data in the form of JSON.

I\'ve verified the API works

Answer 1

Your problem is that you are using the image metadata as the source of key/value pairs to be posted. Instead of sending it as the value of one of those key/value pairs.

The following code will send a request much like the curl statement you provided:

url = 'my-url.com/api/endpoint'
headers = {'Authorization': 'my-api-key'}
image_metadata = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
data = {'name': 'image.jpg', 'data': json.dumps(image_metadata)}
files = {'file': (FILE, open(PATH, 'rb'), 'image/jpg', {'Expires': '0'})}
r = requests.post(url, files=files, headers=headers, data=data)