I have this script in python to try to upload an image. But First I added one ‘Application Password’ in my profile of wordpress. I have the key and all the user name is ‘admin’
However, the script gives me this error:
‘Error uploading image: 401 - {"code":"rest_cannot_create","message":"Sorry, you are not allowed to create posts as this user.","data":{"status":401}} Image upload failed.’ What could be wrong or I miss to configure?
This is the script:
import requests from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth import os import base64 # WordPress API credentials WP_USER = 'admin' # Your WordPress username WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORD = 'xxx' # Your WordPress application password WP_URL = "https://xxx.xxx.com" # Your WordPress site URL def upload_image_to_wp(imgPath): """ Upload an image to WordPress via the REST API using application password authentication. :param imgPath: Local path to the image to upload. :return: The image ID and URL if successful, else None. """ url = f'{WP_URL}/wp-json/wp/v2/media' # Create the Authorization header manually auth = HTTPBasicAuth(WP_USER, WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORD) auth_header = { 'Authorization': 'Basic ' + WP_USER + ':' + WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORD, 'Content-Type': 'image/jpeg' if imgPath.endswith('.jpg') or imgPath.endswith('.jpeg') else 'image/png', 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36', 'Content-Disposition': f'attachment; filename={os.path.basename(imgPath)}', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache', } with open(imgPath, 'rb') as file: file_data = { 'file': (os.path.basename(imgPath), file, 'image/jpeg' if imgPath.endswith('.jpg') or imgPath.endswith('.jpeg') else 'image/png') } # Adding Content-Disposition header headers = { 'Content-Disposition': 'attachment; filename="image.jpg"' # Adjust filename as needed } try: response = requests.post(url, files=file_data, headers={**auth_header, **headers}) if response.status_code == 201: new_dict = response.json() image_id = new_dict.get('id') image_url = new_dict.get('guid', {}).get('rendered') return image_id, image_url else: print(f"Error uploading image: {response.status_code} - {response.text}") return None except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(f"Request error: {e}") return None # Example usage image_path = r"C:/jpg.jpg" # Replace with the actual path to the image upload_response = upload_image_to_wp(image_path) if upload_response: image_id, image_url = upload_response print(f"Image uploaded successfully! ID: {image_id}, URL: {image_url}") else: print("Image upload failed.") 
