Two create_chart errors that disappear when passing additional folder_id argument

[naterattner]

🐛 Bug Report

Hello, I am getting two errors when calling create_chart. This very possibly could be my doing something wrong, though I am following the blog post example.

Here is what I am calling:
new_chart = dw.create_chart(title = "California's Recently Arrived Immigrants", chart_type = 'd3-bars-stacked', data = dw_data)

And these are the errors:
Error 1: Chart could not be created, check your authorization credentials (access token)

Error 2: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'chart_info' referenced before assignment. I see this error was also referenced in #10.

However, when I pass the folder_id argument for create_chart, these errors do not appear:

new_chart = dw.create_chart(title = "California's Recently Arrived Immigrants", chart_type = 'd3-bars-stacked', data = dw_data, folder_id='64489')

Response is: "New chart d3-bars-stacked created!"

When passing the folder_id argument, the chart does appear in my account, though it does not get created in the specified folder -- it lives in the Datawrapper dashboard under "My Charts."

I was able to create a chart with the Datawrapper API separately from this package though am also seeing some unexpected behavior with folders (can't always move charts to a folder by ID).

🔬 How To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Call create_chart with title, chart_type, and data arguments as done in this notebook.
2. Call the same function and add a folder_id argument.

Code sample

See above.

Environment

• OS: Windows 10
• Python version: 3.8.8

Screenshots

Two error messages:

No error messages:

Chart is created, but in "My Charts," not in the folder specified in the folder_id argument:

📈 Expected behavior

Would expect a new chart to be created in my Datawrapper account and appear in the specified folder ID.

📎 Additional context

Thanks for reading/looking!

[github-actions]

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[zak04]

Hello
I am also seeing the same error reported after attempting the tutorial (and my own chart creation tests). I can also confirm that the workaround Nate suggested works.

[clemens-boisseree]

Same problem here:
new_chart = dw.create_chart(title = "California's Recently Arrived Immigrants", chart_type = 'd3-bars-stacked', data = daten, folder_id='52570')
gives me the following error message:

datawrapper/datawrapper.py", line 109, in create_chart
    self.add_data(chart_id=chart_info["id"], data=data)
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'chart_info' referenced before assignment

Plus: The Workaround doesn't seem to work anylonger either...

[elanals]

Hey @clemens-boisseree , the workaround should still work (it does for me). You might want to double-check that the folder id is correct. But if this is definitely still an issue email me in support and we'll see if we can figure it out :)

Also @chekos a pull request for the underlying bug.

-Elana (from Datawrapper support)

[clemens-boisseree]

Hi Elena,
thanks, you were absolutely right, shame on me, I used an wrong token...

[chekos]

HI @elanals thank you for the Pull Requests!

And apologies all! I somehow managed to miss all the github notifications regarding this.

I'll review the PR asap.