How to save image in the media path using urllib

Using Django
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Am following a tutorial and i cant get to pass this part … everything else works fine untill this part below

def save(self, force_insert=False, force_update=False, commit=True):

            image = super().save(commit=False)

            image_url = self.cleaned_data["url"]

            name = slugify(image.title)

            extension = image_url.rsplit(".", 1)[1].lower()

            image_name = f"{name}.{extension}"

            # download image from the given URL

            response = request.urlopen(image_url)

            image.image.save(image_name, ContentFile(response.read()), save=False)

            if commit:

                image.save()

            return image

the image was supposed to be downloaded and saved to the image field of my model

but it never get saved or created its always empty

2

I’m assuming you’re running this in a development environment using runserver (or runserver_plus). Are you getting any error messages or traceback in your console where this is running? Do you have any information as to whether or not it’s actually retrieving a file?

3

Yes sir am running this on Runserver_plus the get part is working getting the url and I have a urlfield in my model everything seems to work great on there with the javascript snippet that passes the get request to django…

What I know is the url is passed to request. Url. Open. After this I don’t know what’s going on I couldn’t even debug tried using print to check what’s in response but wasn’t working

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Is the save method posted above part of a view, form, or model? What does the view look like?

Are you using the Python stdlib urllib module, or the requests package? If you’re using the urllib module, I would encourage you to take a look at requests. In general, I find it to be a whole lot easier to use & understand.

Aside from that, if you’re using urllib, then what you want to check after the urlopen call are the values of the response.url and response.code (pre 3.9) or response.status (3.9+) being returned from the call. That’ll give you a starting point for further research.