I am trying to get alt text of featured image using rest api and python.
Here is my code:
media = {
"file": open(f"images/{filename}", "rb"),
"caption": "caption",
"description": "description",
"alt_text": "Custom Alt Text",
}
upload_image = requests.post(url + "/media", headers=headers, files=media)
Everything works fine instead of alt text. It keeps blank.
Anyone, please help me if I did anything wrong or missed something?
Thanks
As I saw your code, I think you want to set alt_text for the image.
If you want to upload an image by using WordPress REST API and set an alt_text for it, you can use the following function:
import os
import base64
import requests
from pathlib import Path
# WordPress authentication
WP_URL = 'xxxxxxxxx/wp-json/wp/v2'
WP_USERNAME = 'xxxxx'
WP_PASSWORD = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
WP_CREDS = WP_USERNAME + ':' + WP_PASSWORD
WP_TOKEN = base64.b64encode(WP_CREDS.encode())
WP_HEADER = {"Authorization":"Basic " + WP_TOKEN.decode("utf-8")}
def img_upload(img_path, my_alt_text):
image_extension = Path(img_path).suffix
if image_extension != '.jpg':
img_path = img_path.replace(image_extension, '.jpg')
image_name = os.path.basename(img_path)
data = open(imgPath, 'rb').read()
img_header = { 'Content-Type': 'image/jpg','Content-Disposition' : 'attachment; filename=%s'% image_name}
# Upload the image
image_json = requests.post(WP_URL + '/media/' , data=data, headers=img_header,
auth=(WP_USERNAME, WP_PASSWORD)).json()
# Update the uploaded image data
update_image = {'alt_text': my_alt_text}
updated_image_json = requests.post(WP_URL + '/media/' + str(image_json['id']),
headers=WP_HEADER, json=update_image).json()
return updated_image_json
