Double-Posting Gets Stock Accounts Flagged: upload_tracker.py Prevents It

Description and use

upload_tracker.py prevents duplicate uploads to stock platforms, eliminating account flagging risk due to duplication.

Problem

Repeated uploads of the same asset file caused a stock account to be flagged and restricted.

Outcome

Implementing a simple ledger script and metadata builder eliminated duplicate uploads, prevented account throttling, and streamlined the upload workflow.

Workflow

• Run python upload_tracker.py pending items.txt to list files not yet uploaded.
• Upload the pending files with the platform uploader.
• After each successful upload, run python upload_tracker.py done "asset-001.jpg" to mark the file as uploaded.
• Use python upload_tracker.py status to view overall progress.

Evidence

By the time I noticed, 23 files had been submitted twice in one afternoon.

Source

The script, being dumb and honest, started from file 1.

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So the fix is not a smarter uploader. It is a ledger that sits between you and the uploader and refuses to let the same filename go out twice, ever, regardless of how many times the process dies and restarts.

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The whole workflow is three commands: python upload_tracker.py pending items.txt, python upload_tracker.py done "asset-001.jpg", python upload_tracker.py status

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