{
  "id": 15388830,
  "title": "How make_metadata.py Writes the Exact Column Headers Each Stock Platform Demands",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/how-make-metadata-py-writes-the-exact-column-headers-each-stock",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-18T10:00:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/revanzart/how-makemetadatapy-writes-the-exact-column-headers-each-stock-platform-demands-pi3"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Adobe Stock, Vecteezy, and Dreamstime each have their own specific CSV format, and they are not compatible with one another. For instance, Adobe Stock requires 5 columns, Vecteezy requires 4, and Dreamstime requires 15. Submitting a file with the wrong number of columns will result in rejection. The script make_metadata.py automatically writes the correct header for each platform, ensuring the file is accepted without issue.",
  "summary": "I lost a whole afternoon last month to a rejected Adobe Stock CSV. 240 files, ready to go, all rejected in seconds with a header error. The problem was not the art. It was that I had hand-typed the column headers from memory, and I got one of them wrong. Adobe does not guess what you meant. The upload parser reads the first row, does not find the header it expects, and stops. Every file in the…",
  "key_points": [
    "makemetadata.py writes correct column headers for each stock platform",
    "Adobe Stock needs 5 columns, Vecteezy needs 4, Dreamstime needs 15",
    "Incorrect column count causes file rejection"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}