How to send image generated by PIL to browser?

Question

I\'m using flask for my application. I\'d like to send an image (dynamically generated by PIL) to client without saving on disk.

Any idea how to do this ?

Answer 1

Here's a version without any temp files and the like (see here):

def serve_pil_image(pil_img):
    img_io = StringIO()
    pil_img.save(img_io, 'JPEG', quality=70)
    img_io.seek(0)
    return send_file(img_io, mimetype='image/jpeg')

To use in your code simply do

@app.route('some/route/')
def serve_img():
    img = Image.new('RGB', ...)
    return serve_pil_image(img)