S3FileUp is an Apache2 Licensed pluggable Django app that provides you with an API to upload files to S3 directly from the browser, without the file ever touching your server.

It's implemented using djangorestframework, so you can reuse any of the Authorization /Authentication schemes that your webapp uses. There is also an implementation without any django dependencies, see the examples section for more info.

• boto==2.7.0
• djangorestframework==2.3.6

Install using pip, this will install the 3rd party libs required as well:

$ pip install django-s3fileup

Add to settings.INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    ...
    'django.contrib.sites',

    # Add here.
    's3fileup',

    # Then your usual apps.
    'blog',
)

Hook up the URLs, add this to your URLConf:

(r'^uploads/', include('s3fileup.urls')),

• S3FILEUP_GENERATE_BUCKET : Indicate if you want to create a new bucket, defaults to False.

• S3FILEUP_BUCKET_PREFIX : Prefix for a new bucket. The suffix is auto-generated from the current datetime and is of the format %Y_%m_%d_%H_%M. This only required if S3FILEUP_GENERATE_BUCKET is set to True.

• S3FILEUP_BUCKET_NAME : S3 Bucket name to use. This is only required if S3FILEUP_GENERATE_BUCKET is set to False.

• S3FILEUP_DOMAIN : Domain you will be uploading from. This is used to set CORS configs on the bucket, so that cross-domain upload requests are allowed.

• S3FILEUP_MAX_AGE : Define the max age of the url that is generated, defaults to 3000. The value is in seconds.

This app exposes one resource URLs that can be used by the client. Using the example above, the URL is /uploads/s3/s3put/.

Definition

POST /uploads/s3/s3put/

Parameters

• s3_object_name (required) - Name of the file being uploaded
• s3_object_type (optional) - Content type of the file (e.g. application/text)
• s3_object_size (optional) - Size of file in bytes

These parameters are then added to the header, so S3 handles the upload appropriately.

Example Request

$ curl https://my_app/uploads/s3/s3put/ \
 -u my_user \
 -d "s3_object_name=my_awesome_movie.mov" \
 -d "s3_object_type=video/quicktime" \
 -d s3_object_size=3459034

Example Response

{ "url": "https://my_domain/my_bucket/my_filename?Signature=xxxx&Expires=xxxx&AWSAccessKeyId=xxxx&x-amz-acl=xxxx" }

Errors are returned as JSON:

{ "error": "Authentication failed" }

Combine the URL above with a HTTP PUT request and your file, to upload to S3. You can customize the bucket name, CORS config, ACL headers and a callback URL, by including the relevant values in settings.py. See Settings for a full list of settings available.

The examples folder contains a sample Django app with a JavaScript implementation of a upload client.

For those who prefer django-tastypie over django-restframework, there is a working implementation in the tastypie branch.

For those who are Django averse or just want a simple API, there is a sample Flask app in the flask branch. The Flask app does not have any auth and has a simpler settings/configuration paradigm.

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