Question

Hi guys I was wondering how does one upload pics to a image hosting site programmatically through python or java (python preferred).
The site gives no ftp access just through a upload button on the site i.e only http access.
Now I don’t want any code here..I just cant figure out how to start out if u can guide me in the right direction it will be helpful.

    <form method="post" name="" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="process.php" onsubmit="return validateForm(this)">
<input type="hidden" value="0" id="theValue">
<div id="myDiv">
    <input type="file" name="imagefile[]" size="27"><br><br>  
    <input type="file" name="imagefile[]" size="27"><br><br> 
    <input type="file" name="imagefile[]" size="27"><br><br> 
    <input type="file" name="imagefile[]" size="27"><br><br> 
    <input type="file" name="imagefile[]" size="27"><br><br>  
    <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="2097152">
</div>
<p><a href="javascript:;" onclick="addElement();">Upload more</a></p>
<input type="submit" value="Upload" name="upload">
<p></p>
</form>

the web form.

Answer 1

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ATTENTION: This answer is outdated since the time it was written. Use requests library.

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

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This is a code sample that “just works” for me. It uses MultipartPostHandler for uploading files.

import urllib2
import MultipartPostHandler

params = {'file':open( "FILENAME.JPG" , 'rb')}
opener = urllib2.build_opener(MultipartPostHandler.MultipartPostHandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
req = urllib2.Request( "PROCESS.PHP" , params)
text_response = urllib2.urlopen(req).read().strip()

MultipartPostHandler is available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MultipartPostHandler/0.1.0