update_with_media: Code 189

[WaffleStudios]

I'm trying to use PTT to send a Twitter update with an image attached. Here's a sample of my code

params = {"media[]": encoded_string,"status":"TEST MESSAGE"}
t.statuses.update_with_media(**params)

Where encoded_string is a base64 encoded string of the image file. Every time I try to send it, I get the following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 65, in <module>
    t.statuses.update_with_media(**params)
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/twitter/api.py", line 245, in __call__
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/twitter/api.py", line 276, in _handle_response
twitter.api.TwitterHTTPError: Twitter sent status 403 for URL: 1.1/statuses/update_with_media.json using parameters: (OAUTH_INFORMATION)
details: {"errors":[{"code":189,"message":"Error creating status."}]}

I can't seem to find any helpful information after a lot of Googling, and I don't understand the nature of this issue. Is this an issue with PTT, or is there just something I'm missing?

[RouxRC]

Hi, this is Twitter's classic error code when something is wrong while sending a wrong image (Twitter accepts only small images in jpeg png or gif(not animated))
Could you please give more information on the image and how you convert it as such ?

FYI: you shouldn't need to convert your image to base64, just pure python binary read of a file is fine, for instance:

with open('img.jpg', 'rb') as f:
    t.statuses.update_with_media(status="Youpi !", 'media[]' = f.read())

[WaffleStudios]

Whenever I try to run it without encoding it, using open('img.jpg', 'rb') and f.read() like you suggested, it gives me this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 64, in <module>
    t.statuses.update_with_media(**params)
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/twitter/api.py", line 240, in __call__
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

As for information about the image, I'm building an image using PIL, saving it to disk (originally as a png 500x500, but using jpeg 250x250 did not change the result), and then attempting to upload it. I've encoded it to base64 both by using img.encode("base64") as well as base64.b64encode(img)

[hugovk]

Quick sanity check: can you post the image to Twitter using the Twitter website?

[WaffleStudios]

Yes, I can. I cleared out all the items from the directory, re-ran my program, and uploaded the picture to Twitter using the Twitter website, and it went up fine.

[RouxRC]

Mmm... I may have an idea but it's hard to try. Could you post the image or the code online somewhere for tryouts?

[WaffleStudios]

Full code is right here (minus my OAUTH keys and such)

from __future__ import unicode_literals
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFont
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageDraw

import json
import textwrap

import requests
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1
from urlparse import parse_qs

from twitter import *
import StringIO
import base64

REQUEST_TOKEN_URL = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"
AUTHORIZE_URL = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token="
ACCESS_TOKEN_URL = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"

CONSUMER_KEY = "[CONSUMER_KEY]"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "[CONSUMER_SECRET]"

OAUTH_TOKEN = "[OAUTH_TOKEN]"
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = "[OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET]"

t = Twitter(
            auth=OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET,
                       CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
           )

topString = "how does this thing handle really long strings lorem ipsum ipsos something latin i don't know filler text boston red sox fever pitch don jerry film in toronto. i think this is long enough."
img = Image.new("RGB", (250, 250), "white")

imageSize = img.size

fontSize = imageSize[1] / 20
font = ImageFont.truetype("[DIR_TO_FONT]", fontSize)
topTextSize = font.getsize(topString)

# find top centered position for top text
topTextPositionX = (imageSize[0]/2) - (topTextSize[0]/2)
topTextPositionY = 0
topTextPosition = (topTextPositionX, topTextPositionY)

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)

margin = offset = 25
for line in textwrap.wrap(topString, width=30):
    # thin border
    draw.text((margin-1, offset-1), line, font=font, fill="#000000")
    draw.text((margin+1, offset-1), line, font=font, fill="#000000")
    draw.text((margin-1, offset+1), line, font=font, fill="#000000")
    draw.text((margin-1, offset+1), line, font=font, fill="#000000")
    draw.text((margin-1, offset), line, font=font, fill="#FFFFFF")
    offset += font.getsize(line)[1]

img.save("temp.jpg", "JPEG")

with open("temp.jpg", "rb") as open_file:
    params = {"media[]": base64.b64encode(open_file.read()), "status": "TEST MESSAGE HTWER"}

t.statuses.update_with_media(**params)

print "done"

Only requires PIL and PTT. Anything other imports are just extra junk from earlier attempts and can be disregarded. I know image generation works, and I can send updates without media. It's just when I try to send a picture that it gives me 189.

[RouxRC]

All right, just tried and got it to work by removing the base64.b64encode() around the open_file.read() Have you tried that?

with open("temp.jpg", "rb") as open_file:
    params = {"media[]": open_file.read(), "status": "TEST MESSAGE HTWER"}

Otherwise, looking at your final print, I'd say you're using python-2 as I did in my tryouts, so I really don't know why it would work for me and not for you :/ Maybe adding a # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- at the top of your code?...

[WaffleStudios]

I'm using Python 2.7.5 (just checked the version number). I added # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-, but that did not affect it. I posted this earlier, but if I don't encode it, I get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 65, in <module>
    t.statuses.update_with_media(**params)
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/twitter/api.py", line 240, in __call__
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[RouxRC]

Well I can't reproduce it unfortunately so I really don't know how to help, sorry :(

[RouxRC]

Hi there, It ended up not working anymore for me either and I seem to have just fixed it (see https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter/commit/94fb8fab211ba987f4661150c95817bd073bd4a6#commitcomment-7106511) Could you please try again and see if this works for you now?

[geper]

where if media: api.py why no encod('utf-8')?