Can upload photo when using the Google Photos API

Question

I am trying to upload a photo (jpg image) using the new Google Photos API. I am able to get an uploadToken but when I try to create the media item I get the following error:

{
  "newMediaItemResults": [
    {
      "uploadToken": "CAIS+QIAkor2Yr4JcvYMMx..... ",
      "status": {
        "code": 3,
        "message": "NOT_IMAGE: There was an error while trying to create this media item."
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here is a snippet of my code:

import sys
import json
import requests

pic = 'image.jpg'

fname = 'read_write_token_creds.json'
with open(fname) as f:
        data = json.load(f)
tok = data['access_token']

# Step 1 get an upload token

URL = 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads'

headers = {
'Content-type': 'application/octet-stream',
'X-Goog-Upload-File-Name': pic,
'X-Goog-Upload-Protocol': 'raw',
'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + tok,
}

files = {'file': open(pic, 'rb')}
r = requests.post(URL, headers=headers, files=files)
upload_token = r.text

# Step 2

album_id = 'AG.....7u'
URL = 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems:batchCreate'

header = {
'Content-type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + tok
}


payload = {
  'albumId': album_id,
  'newMediaItems': [
    {
      'description': 'Desc.',
      'simpleMediaItem': { 'uploadToken': upload_token }
    }
  ]
}

r = requests.post(URL, headers=header, data=json.dumps(payload))

When I look at r.text from the requests module, I receive the error message which was given at the top of he message.

Lampe

google has very pure documentation for photo upload. Can you post some code how you creating new item? – Kiarakibble

See above changes to my post. – Lampe

i posted a solution if you still looking for it – Kiarakibble

Answer 1

This worked for me.

How to authenticate user see here https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/upload-media

    def upload(service, file):
        f = open(file, 'rb').read();

        url = 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads'
        headers = {
            'Authorization': "Bearer " + service._http.request.credentials.access_token,
            'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream',
            'X-Goog-Upload-File-Name': file,
            'X-Goog-Upload-Protocol': "raw",
        }

        r = requests.post(url, data=f, headers=headers)
        print '\nUpload token: %s' % r.content
        return r.content

    def createItem(service, upload_token, albumId):
        url = 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems:batchCreate'

        body = {
            'newMediaItems' : [
                {
                    "description": "test upload",
                    "simpleMediaItem": {
                        "uploadToken": upload_token
                    }  
                }
            ]
        }

        if albumId is not None:
            body['albumId'] = albumId;

        bodySerialized = json.dumps(body);
        headers = {
            'Authorization': "Bearer " + service._http.request.credentials.access_token,
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        }

        r = requests.post(url, data=bodySerialized, headers=headers)
        print '\nCreate item response: %s' % r.content
        return r.content

# authenticate user and build service
upload_token = upload(service, './path_to_image.png')
response = createItem(service, upload_token, album['id'])

Kiarakibble