Last time I had to use S3 uploads in Django was in 0.96 and I am happy to report that it is simpler than ever to upload files to S3 in Django. The recent storage-engine refactoring in Django 1.0 makes it a breeze to implement - no need for custom field types or anything like that.

David Larlet has put together a very good collection of Django storage-engines that looks very well-written compared to some naive implementations that I happened to stumble across elsewhere on the web. In addition, it includes a library for MogileFS - looks very exciting indeed and I hope I’ll have an opportunity (or reason rather) to play around with it one day!

To use, simply download Amazons S3 api, along with Larlet’s storage-engines (I just placed them in site-packages), and then your model would look something like the following:

import S3Storage

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    storage = S3Storage()
    profile_image = models.ImageField(upload_to='some-dir', storage=storage)

Tags: Django, S3

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