# How to upload a video to django ?
**URL:** https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-upload-a-video-to-django/38697
**Category:** Forms & APIs
**Created:** [February 8, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-upload-a-video-to-django/38697 "2025-02-08T23:24:48Z")
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### Author:  [@mabaashar](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mabaashar)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-upload-a-video-to-django/38697/1 "2025-02-08T23:24:48Z")
I want to upload a video via a ModelForm to my view to process it then display the result in the front-end.
My approach is:
**models.py**
from django.db import models
class Video\_upload(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(User, on\_delete=models.CASCADE)
video = models.FileField(blank=True,upload\_to=‘static/video/’)
**forms.py**
```auto
from django.db import models
from django import forms
from django.forms import ModelForm
from myapp.models import Video_upload
class VideoUploadForm(ModelForm):
video = forms.FileField(required=False, error_messages = {'invalid':("Video files only")}, widget=forms.FileInput)
class Meta:
model = Video_upload
fields = ['video']
```
**views.py**
```auto
def main(request):
template = loader.get_template('index.html')
model_db = Model_info.objects.get(id=chosen_model)
if request.POST:
form = VideoUploadForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
# video_form = VideoUploadForm(request.POST,request.FILES)
if form.is_valid():
# get uploaded video
uploaded = form.cleaned_data['video']
v_name = request.FILES['video'].name
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```
How do I get the video that was uploaded through the form ? I can get its name only.
Notice that I don’t want to store it permenantly, just temporarily until the processing completes and yeild a result.
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### Author:  [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-upload-a-video-to-django/38697/2 "2025-02-08T23:43:57Z")
If you want to process the video before it’s saved, see the docs at [File Uploads | Django documentation | Django](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/topics/http/file-uploads/) , especially the section on [Upload Handlers](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/topics/http/file-uploads/#upload-handlers).
Note: If you’re not going to save it, then you do _not_ want to make a model for this, and you don’t want to create the form as a model form. Create a regular form for this and process the file in a handler.
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### Author:  [@mabaashar](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mabaashar)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-upload-a-video-to-django/38697/3 "2025-02-10T22:55:56Z")
Thank you very much @KenWhitesell , I followed the approach you suggested and managed to upload the video successfully.
I used normal form.