flask-thumbnails

A simple extension to create a thumbs for the Flask

Installation

Use your favorite Python package manager to install the app from PyPI, e.g.

Example:

pip install flask-thumbnails

Add Thumbnail to your extension file:

from flask import Flask
from flask_thumbnails import Thumbnail

app = Flask(__name__)

thumb = Thumbnail(app)

Add THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_ROOT and THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_URL in your settings:

app.config['THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_ROOT'] = '/home/www/media'
app.config['THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_URL'] = '/media/'

Example usage

Use in Jinja2 template:

<img src="{{ 'image.jpg'|thumbnail('200x200') }}" alt="" />
<img src="{{ 'image.jpg'|thumbnail('200x200', crop='fit', quality=100) }}" alt="" />

Options

crop='fit' returns a sized and cropped version of the image, cropped to the requested aspect ratio and size, read more.

quality=XX changes the quality of the output JPEG thumbnail, default 90.

Develop and Production

Production

In production, you need to add media directory in you web server.

Develop

To service the uploaded files need a helper function, where /media/ your settings app.config['THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_URL']:

from flask import send_from_directory

@app.route('/media/<regex("([\w\d_/-]+)?.(?:jpe?g|gif|png)"):filename>')
def media_file(filename):
    return send_from_directory(app.config['THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_THUMBNAIL_ROOT'], filename)

Option settings

If you want to store the thumbnail in a folder other than the THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_THUMBNAIL_ROOT, you need to set it manually:

app.config['THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_THUMBNAIL_ROOT'] = '/home/www/media/cache'
app.config['THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_THUMBNAIL_URL'] = '/media/cache/'
app.config['THUMBNAIL_STORAGE_BACKEND'] = 'flask_thumbnails.storage_backends.FilesystemStorageBackend'
app.config['THUMBNAIL_DEFAULT_FORMAT'] = 'JPEG'

Migrate 0.X to 1.X

Since version 1.X all settings have a prefix THUMBNAIL_. Example: MEDIA_ROOT -> THUMBNAIL_MEDIA_ROOT.