Python API: Tweet with media without file

Question

I'm using twitter from python in an environment where I can't store files.

I get a HTTP POST with a text and an image and want to create a tweet from this data without writing a local file (it's zappa on AWS api environment).

Tweepy only allows filenames, which does not work for me.

python-twitter seems to have something like that, but I can't find a doc for this.

Should I just send POST requests to twitter for uploading the images? Is there a simpler way?

How are you receiving the images? And if can't you make permanent writes, find a way to either push it online by serializing it, that is, if you cannot find the doc. — Aakash Verma
– Aakash Verma, Commented Dec 19, 2017 at 22:51
I get it as HTTP Post in base64, so very perfect to send to Twitter, but tweepy wants to make it simple and only allows a filename. — flaschenpost
– flaschenpost, Commented Dec 19, 2017 at 22:52

Galen · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-19 23:19:26Z

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Try passing a io.BytesIO to tweepy's API.update_with_media as file.

filename – The filename of the image to upload. This will automatically be opened unless file is specified

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file – A file object, which will be used instead of opening filename. filename is still required, for MIME type detection and to use as a form field in the POST data

Edit: It looks like you have the image data base64 encoded. You can use base64.b64decode to decode it before creating the io.BytesIO:

file = io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(base64_data))

edited Dec 19, 2017 at 23:19

answered Dec 19, 2017 at 22:53

Galen

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flaschenpost Over a year ago

Ah, on the third check I found out that I do get multipart-formdata, only the example looked like some encoded data. So i already get file handles.

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