Download files from Amazon S3 with Django

Question

I have a Django app that allows users to download MP3 files that they purchased and these MP3 files are hosted in Amazon S3. How can I force a download when users click a \"

Answer 1

I couldn't easily find anywhere that specified how to do this and ended up back at this question time and again when I searched. So

With django-storages using the boto backend, the way to do this is something like

filepath = settings.MEDIA_DIRECTORY + file.name
response_headers = {
    'response-content-type': 'application/force-download',
    'response-content-disposition':'attachment;filename="%s"'%file.name
    }
url = s3.generate_url(60, 'GET',
                bucket=settings.AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME,
                key=filepath,
                response_headers=response_headers,
                force_http=True)
return http.HttpResponseRedirect(url)