Creating post using rest api and setting featured-image

Hi All,
I am using WordPress rest API to dynamically create my posts without going into the website.
I am able to OAuth2 and got the token too. I am able to create the post by sending the POST req on this link –
https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.2/sites/$siteID/posts/new
This is the req I am sending using request library in python-

my_image = (open('aa.jpg', 'rb'))
data = {'slug': 'apitest',
        'title': title,
        'content':"this is a new post created using rest api> It has tag, category, title",
        'tags': 'restAPI',
        'categories': 'Shayri',
        #'featured_image': my_image,
        }
files = {'featured_image': my_image,,
       'Content-Type': 'image/jpg',
      # 'ID':post_ID
        }
response = requests.post(create_post_url, headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token},
                                          data = data, files = files)

I have gone through documents and saw that the featured image is set using a multipart-form post request This is what I am doing in the above code, but I am not able to set the featured image but I am able to set all other things.
Can anyone help with this? I am using python 3.9v and request library for HTTPS req.

Thanks

• This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by kavitalay.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by bcworkz. Reason: code fixed

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