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.

Answer 1

Try doing it this way instead of assigning path to the image...

    import urllib2
    from django.core.files.temp import NamedTemporaryFile
    def handle_upload_url_file(url):
        img_temp = NamedTemporaryFile()
        opener = urllib2.build_opener()
        opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1')]
        img_temp.write(opener.open(url).read())
        img_temp.flush()
        return img_temp

use the above function like this..

    new_image = images_data()
    #rest of the data in new_image and then do this.
    new_image.image.save(slug_filename,File(handle_upload_url_file(url)))
    #here slug_filename is just filename that you want to save the file with.