PyUploadCare: a Python module for UploadCare

This consists in API interface for UploadCare, and a couple of Django goodies.

To install it, just run

pip install pyuploadcare

(or easy_install pyuploadcare if you're into vintage)

How to use it with Django?

First of all, you'll need API keys: public and private. You can get them at the UploadCare website. Currently it requires an invitation code to register, please request an access to uploadcare-testing user group and find it there.

As soon as you get your API keys, add them to your Django settings file:

settings.py

UPLOADCARE = {
    'pub_key': '***',
    'secret': '***'
}

If you don't want to use hosted assets (from static.uploadcare.com) you must add 'pyuploadcare.dj' to INSTALLED_APPS setting and add

PYUPLOADCARE_USE_HOSTED_ASSETS = False

somewhere in the settings file. (Kudos to Sławek Ehlert for the feature!)

You're all set now!

Adding a UploadCare file field to your model is really simple. Like that:

models.py

from django.db import models

from pyuploadcare.dj import FileField

class Photo(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    photo = FileField()

FileField doesn't require any arguments, file paths or whatever. It just works. That's the point of it all.

It looks nice in the admin interface

Using it

It's really simple, just use your UploadCare-enabled models as any other models:

for p in Photo.objects.all():

    # p.photo contains pyuploadcare.file.File object

    print p.photo.url()

    print p.photo.resized(200, 400) # returns the url of resized version of the image
    print p.photo.resized(height=400)
    print p.photo.resized(150, 150, crop=True)

Using it in templates

To make your life easier, UploadCare file objects understand some 'magic' properties.

{{ p.photo.resized_120x200_crop }}
{{ p.photo.resized_120 }}
{{ p.photo.resized_x120 }}
{{ p.photo.resized_600x120 }}

These are most useful in Django templates, which are somewhat limited in calling functions with arguments.