How to download Django media file uploaded using Django storages?

Question

I have successfully stored a Word document to S3 using Django-storages.

class Document(TitleSlugDescriptionModel, TimeStampedModel):
    document = models.FileField(upload_to=user_directory_path)

Now in celery task, I need to download this file again for further processing in the worker.

Do I need to read the file from URL and then create the local copy explicitly or is there any way to create local copy using Django-storages?

alexbhandari · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-09 03:06:21Z

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You can read the file directly in Django using the read method as in document.read() this will output binary which you can save to a file using

f=open(filename, 'wb')
f.write(document.read())
f.close

You can also generate URLs to the file on S3 as well. More info on both in the docs: https://django-storages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/amazon-S3.html

answered Feb 9, 2020 at 3:06

alexbhandari

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