Python 3.5 API upload error

It looks like the output you shared here is cut off. There should be more after "UploadWriteFailed". Can you share the rest of that so we can take a look? Thanks in advance! 

Sorry Greg, didn't notice that. Here's the entire error message:

[UPLOAD] Thursday 13 December 2018 03:13:03PM
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pi_surveillance.py", line 126, in <module>
client.files_upload(open(t.path, "rb").read(), path)
File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dropbox/base.py", line 2187, in files_upload
f,
File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox.py", line 296, in request
user_message_locale)
dropbox.exceptions.ApiError: ApiError('b61692b65ac6c9567e93b708e5b09354', UploadError('path', UploadWriteFailed(reason=WriteError('malformed_path', None), upload_session_id='AAAAAAAAAFpRjEudLSydjw')))

Thanks,  

delta1071

Thanks! I see you're getting a 'malformed_path' error. That should indicate that the path you're giving for the upload isn't in a valid format. What value are you supplying as the 'path' parameter (i.e., the second parameter on files_upload)?

Not sure where to find the files_upload string. The Dropbox upload section of the script is this:

# upload the image to Dropbox and clean up the temporary image
print("[UPLOAD] {}".format(ts))
path = "/{base_path}/{timestamp}.jpg".format(
base_path=conf["dropbox_base_path"], timestamp=ts)
client.files_upload(open(t.path, "rb").read(), path)
t.cleanup()

Thanks, I am referring to that 'path' variable you're passing in to files_upload. 

Can you share the actual value in 'path' after that 'format' call? I.e., "print(path)" just before you call files_upload.

Greg, 

My conf.json file contains this Dropbox entry:

"use_dropbox": true,
"dropbox_access_token": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"dropbox_base_path": "https://www.dropbox.com/home/Pi%20Image%20Search",

The files are uploading now. It seems like it takes a while before the files appear in my Dropbox folder, because even after changing the upload path, the images were showing up in the local folder folder that I was running the script from, but not in the Dropbox folder. But when I checked the Dropbox folder today, the images from Friday morning were there. So, I assume it's working now. Thanks for your help.

Regards,

delta1071

I'm glad to hear you have this working now.

For reference though, note that the files uploaded via the Dropbox API should be available on the Dropbox API/web site as soon as the upload API call returns.

If you weren't seeing the file immediately on the Dropbox web site or a mobile client, it's possible you just needed to refresh, or if you were looking on a desktop client, you may have some general desktop syncing issues.

Hi there,

I am receiving a WriteError for a malformed path:

UploadError('path', UploadWriteFailed(reason=WriteError('malformed_path', None), ))

"dropbox_base_path": "/HomeSec",

Any ideas where I am going wrong?