Title: Upload files using python sessions
Last modified: September 28, 2020

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# Upload files using python sessions

 *  Resolved [cspit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cspit/)
 * (@cspit)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-files-using-python-sessions/)
 * I need to upload images to wordpress programmatically, ideally without installing
   additional plugins. However I am open to best practices that involve plugins.
 * So far I have been able to log in and move about the site using sessions, but
   when I try to upload a file to media-new.php or async-upload.php I get the following
   error message
 * `<div class="wp-die-message">The link you followed has expired.</div>`
 * The file is a test text file with a single line (also the upload limit on the
   site is 1GB) so it’s not the common file size limit. This is what I have so far.
   Let me know if I am barking up the wrong tree.
 *     ```
       import sys, requests, re
   
       f = 'test.txt'
       rstring='name="_wpnonce" value="(0-9a-z){10}"'
   
       user='username'
       password='password'
       url1='https://example.com/wp-login.php'
       url2='https://example.com/wp-admin/media-new.php'
       url3='https://example.com/wp-admin/async-upload.php'
   
       headerauth= {
               'Cookie':'wordpress_test_cookie=WP Cookie check; ROUTEID=.1',
               'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
               }
       dataauth = {
               'log':user,
               'pwd':password,
               'wp-submit':'Log In',
               'redirect_to': url2,
               'testcookie': 1
               }
       image = {'async-upload':('test.txt', open(f, "rb"))}
       testimage = open(f, "rb")
   
       session1=requests.session()
       session1.get(url1)
       r1 = session1.post(url1, headers=headerauth, data=dataauth)
   
       test = re.search('value="[0-9a-z]{10}"', r1.text)
       nonce = re.search('[0-9a-z]{10}', test.group(0))
       nonce = nonce.group(0)
   
       dataupload = {
               'post_id': '0',
               '_wp_http_referer': '/wp-admin/media-new.php',
               '_wpnonce': nonce ,
               'action': 'upload_attachement',
               'html-upload': 'Upload',
               }
       testheaders = {
               'Connection': 'keep-alive',
               'Referer': 'https://example.com/wp-admin/upload.php'
               }
       testdata = {
               'post_id': '0',
               '_wpnonce': nonce,
               'type': '',
               'tab': '',
               'short': '1',
               }
       testdata2 = {
               'name': 'test.txt',
               'action': 'upload-attachement',
               '_wpnonce': nonce,
               'wpmf_folder': '0',
               }
   
       r3 = session1.post(url2, data=dataupload, files=image)
       #r3 = session1.post(url3, data=testdata2, files=image)
       title = re.search('\<title\>.+<\/title\>', r3.text)
       print(r3)
       print(title.group(0))
       ```
   
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by [cspit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cspit/).

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 *  Thread Starter [cspit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cspit/)
 * (@cspit)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-files-using-python-sessions/#post-13464894)
 * I found the problem. I was not pulling the correct nonce.
 * Updated to use the following now allows me to upload files.
 *     ```
       test = re.search('"multipart_params":.*_wpnonce":"[0-9a-z]+"', r1.text)
       nonce = re.search('(?<=_wpnonce":")[0-9a-z]{10}', test.group(0))
       nonce = nonce.group(0)
       ```
   

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