upload files using wordpress api and pplication-passwords plugin

wordpress-api-media-upload.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests
import json
import base64

user = 'USERNAME'
token = 'WWWW WWWW WWWW WWWW WWWW WWWW' # auth. token from application-passwords plugin

apiVer = 'v2'
url = f'http://www.example.com/wp-json/wp/{apiVer}'

token = base64.standard_b64encode((user + ':' + token).encode('utf-8')) 
headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic ' + token.decode('utf-8')} 

filename = "/home/user/Images/cat.jpg"
with open(filename,'rb')} as mediaFile:
    media = {'file': mediaFile}

# upload media
image = requests.post(url + '/media', headers=headers, files=media) 
link = json.loads(image.content.decode('utf-8'))['link'] 
postid = json.loads(image.content.decode('utf-8'))['id'] 

# add metadata
post = {
        'caption': 'CAPTION',
        'description': 'DESCRIPTION'
}
meta = requests.post(url + '/media/'+str(postid), headers=headers, json=post) 

print('Your image is updated on {} with ID {}'.format(link, postid))