Error when uploading video - "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'extension'"

[LAMike310]

I cloned the repo and tried to run the example "upload-a-video.py":

from instapy_cli import client
  
username = 'xxxxx'
password = 'xxxxx'
video = '../docs/video-sample-upload.mp4'
text = 'This will be the caption of your video.' + '\r\n' + 'You can also use hashtags! #hash #tag #now'

with client(username, password) as cli:
    cli.upload(video, text)

But I got an error in the console that said:

Reusing settings: ig.json
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "upload-a-video.py", line 9, in <module>
    cli.upload(video, text)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/cli.py", line 105, in upload
    media = Media(file)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/media.py", line 29, in __init__
    self.check_type()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/media.py", line 32, in check_type
    self.media_ext = filetype.guess(self.media_path).extension
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'extension'

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[b3nab]

please, add relevant informations such as python and instapy-cli version
Also, I suggest you to update to latest release of instapy-cli 0.0.10 and re-try.

[KuHuKD2]

Hello. I've got the same sort of error on .mp4 file in ubuntu. Pictures are send successfully without errors.

instapy-cli 0.0.10 | python 3.5.2
Reusing settings: User_ig.json

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/instapy", line 10, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/digital/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/instapy_cli/main.py", line 44, in main
cli.upload(options.file, text, story)
File "/home/digital/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/instapy_cli/cli.py", line 109, in upload
media = Media(file)
File "/home/digital/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/instapy_cli/media.py", line 29, in init
self.check_type()
File "/home/digital/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/instapy_cli/media.py", line 32, in check_type
self.media_ext = filetype.guess(self.media_path).extension
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'extension'_

[oce-290480]

Hi,
I dont know if this issues is resolved or not.
I just got the same issues

python ver : 3.6.8 | instapy-cli 0.0.12

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\oce\anaconda3\envs\insta\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in run_module_as_main
"main", mod_spec)
File "c:\users\oce\anaconda3\envs\insta\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\oce\Anaconda3\envs\insta\Scripts\instapy.exe_main.py", line 9, in
File "c:\users\oce\anaconda3\envs\insta\lib\site-packages\instapy_cli_main.py", line 44, in main
cli.upload(options.file, text, story)
File "c:\users\oce\anaconda3\envs\insta\lib\site-packages\instapy_cli\cli.py", line 116, in upload
media = Media(file)
File "c:\users\oce\anaconda3\envs\insta\lib\site-packages\instapy_cli\media.py", line 29, in init
self.check_type()
File "c:\users\oce\anaconda3\envs\insta\lib\site-packages\instapy_cli\media.py", line 32, in check_type
self.media_ext = filetype.guess(self.media_path).extension
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'extension'

Help would greatly appreciated

Thanks

[tomaaron]

This is duo to the missing sanity check for the filetype. Somehow the lib filetype is having problems with some mp4 and can't guess the right type.

[b3nab]

Can you provide a mp4 video example that filetype failed to identify?

[KuHuKD2]

Of course, this one, for example:
File.mp4

[salahar9]

@b3nab i have the solution, the issue's origin is actually the filetype library and specifically this line at media.py
self.media_ext = filetype.guess(self.media_path).extension
filetype is returning None on some videos so to fix it you can use Magic instead of filetype
PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/python-magic-bin/0.4.14/ or Pip: pip install python-magic-bin
so now in the media.py
first : import magic
then change the check_type function to this:
`def check_type(self):

    self.media_ext = magic.from_file(self.media_path,mime=True)
    self.media_ext=  self.media_ext.split('/')[1]` 

[formazione]

Thanks it worked really fine.

[Kaszanas]

@b3nab Please review the changes if possible.
This is an issue which is also happening in my use case of this library.

[keenan14]

Hey guys I have been having the same issue my code was:
from instapy_cli import client

username = 'testing211714'
password = '****'
image = 'posts/keenan.png'
text = 'This will be the caption of your photo.' + '\r\n' + 'You can also use hashtags! #hash #tag #now'

with client(username, password) as cli:
cli.upload(image, text)`

But recieved the error:
(env) Ryans-MacBook-Pro:InstaAutomaterFirstTry ryankeenan$ python app.py
[IG] not found cookie/cookie_file >> login as default
Error parsing error response: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Error is >>
Bad Request

Something went bad.
Please retry or send an issue on https://github.com/b3nab/instapy-cli

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "app.py", line 9, in
cli.upload(image, text)
File "/Users/ryankeenan/Desktop/git/InstaAutomaterFirstTry/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/cli.py", line 153, in upload
raise IOError("Unable to upload.")
OSError: Unable to upload.

I followed @salahar9 advice and imported magic at media.py but the error just changed to:
(env) Ryans-MacBook-Pro:InstaAutomaterFirstTry ryankeenan$ python app.py
[IG] not found cookie/cookie_file >> login as default
Error parsing error response: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Error is >>
Bad Request

Something went bad.
Please retry or send an issue on https://github.com/b3nab/instapy-cli

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "app.py", line 10, in
cli.upload(image, text)
File "/Users/ryankeenan/Desktop/git/InstaAutomaterFirstTry/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/cli.py", line 153, in upload
raise IOError("Unable to upload.")
OSError: Unable to upload.
Does anyone see where I went wrong??