Download a remote image and save it to a Django model

Question

I am writing a Django app which will fetch all images of particular URL and save them in the database.

But I am not getting on how to use ImageField in Django.

Settings.py

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PWD, "../downloads/")  # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a # trailing slash. # Examples: "http://example.com/media/", "htp://media.example.com/" MEDIA_URL = '/downloads/' 

models.py

class images_data(models.Model):         image_id =models.IntegerField()         source_id = models.IntegerField()         image=models.ImageField(upload_to='images',null=True, blank=True)         text_ind=models.NullBooleanField()         prob=models.FloatField() 

download_img.py

def spider(site):         PWD = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__ ))         #site="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune"         hdr= {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}         outfolder=os.path.join(PWD, "../downloads")         #outfolder="/home/mayank/Desktop/dreamport/downloads"         print "MAYANK:"+outfolder         req = urllib2.Request(site,headers=hdr)         page = urllib2.urlopen(req)         soup =bs(page)         tag_image=soup.findAll("img")         count=1;         for image in tag_image:                 print "Image: %(src)s" % image                 filename = image["src"].split("/")[-1]                 outpath = os.path.join(outfolder, filename)                 urlretrieve('http:'+image["src"], outpath)                 im = img(image_id=count,source_id=1,image=outpath,text_ind=None,prob=0)                 im.save()                 count=count+1 

I am calling download_imgs.py inside one view like

        if form.is_valid():                 url = form.cleaned_data['url']                 spider(url) 

Answer 1

Django Documentation is always good place to start

class ModelWithImage(models.Model):     image = models.ImageField(         upload_to='images',     ) 

UPDATED

So this script works.

• Loop over images to download
• Download image
• Save to temp file
• Apply to model
• Save model

.

import requests import tempfile  from django.core import files  # List of images to download image_urls = [     'http://i.thegrindstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/how-to-get-awesome-back.jpg', ]  for image_url in image_urls:     # Stream the image from the url     response = requests.get(image_url, stream=True)      # Was the request OK?     if response.status_code != requests.codes.ok:         # Nope, error handling, skip file etc etc etc         continue          # Get the filename from the url, used for saving later     file_name = image_url.split('/')[-1]          # Create a temporary file     lf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()      # Read the streamed image in sections     for block in response.iter_content(1024 * 8):                  # If no more file then stop         if not block:             break          # Write image block to temporary file         lf.write(block)      # Create the model you want to save the image to     image = Image()      # Save the temporary image to the model#     # This saves the model so be sure that it is valid     image.image.save(file_name, files.File(lf)) 

Some reference links:

1. requests - "HTTP for Humans", I prefer this to urllib2
2. tempfile - Save temporay file and not to disk
3. Django filefield save