A Little Note on Renren API

Overview

Renren is popular Chinese social website. This post introduces an easy way, and yet different from Douban’s photo uploading previews introduced, to upload photo to your Renren albums with Python requests.

Python code

import requests
access_token = YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
fh = open('YOUR_IMAGE_FILE_PATH','rb')
files = {'file':fh}
url = 'https://api.renren.com/v2/photo/upload'
text = 'WORDS_TO_DESCRIBE_YOUR_PHOTO' 
v = {'description':text, 'albumId':YOUR_ALBUMID, 'access_token':access_token}
r = requests.post(url, data=v, files=files)
r.status_code # would give you the http call result
r_json = r.json() # would give the result in json format

Things to take extra care are: use ‘data’ to pass your dictionary when make a POST call with requests, Multipart-Encoded File should be put in a dictionary and pass to ‘files’.
cheers!