🦧 support for local images

Author: ma2za

examples/draft.yaml

@@ -19,8 +19,11 @@ body:
     type: "paragraph"
     content: "2)"
   5:
+    type: "captionedImage"
+    src: "https://media.tenor.com/7B4jMa-a7bsAAAAC/i-am-batman.gif"
+  6:
     type: "paragraph"
     content: "Set the EMAIL, PASSWORD, PUBLICATION_URL and USER_ID environment variables."
-  6:
+  7:
     type: "captionedImage"
-    src: "https://i.insider.com/602ee9d81a89f20019a377c6?width=1136&format=jpeg"
+    src: "rickroll_4k.jpg"

examples/rickroll_4k.jpg

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "python-substack"
-version = "0.1.6"
+version = "0.1.7"
 description = "A Python wrapper around the Substack API."
 authors = ["Paolo Mazza <mazzapaolo2019@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+import base64
 import logging
+import os
 from datetime import datetime
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
 
@@ -234,14 +236,18 @@ def get_image(self, image: str):
         This method generates a new substack link that contains the image.
 
         Args:
-            image: original url to image.
+            image: filepath or original url of image.
 
         Returns:
 
         """
+        if os.path.exists(image):
+            with open(image, "rb") as file:
+                image = b"data:image/jpeg;base64," + base64.b64encode(file.read())
+
         response = self._session.post(
             f"{self.publication_url}/image",
-            json={
+            data={
                 "image": image
             },
         )