Build file handling in minutes. Upload or accept user-generated content, store, transform, optimize, and deliver images, videos, and documents to billions of users.
# Python API client for Uploadcare
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Build file handling in minutes. Upload or accept user-generated content, store, transform, optimize, and deliver images, videos, and documents to billions of users.
* [Description](#description)
* [Documentation](#documentation)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [Requirements](#requirements)
* [Usage](#usage)
* [Testing](#testing)
* [Demo app (Docker)](#demo-app)
## Description
This library consists of the APIs interface and a couple of Django goodies, 100% covering [Upload](https://uploadcare.com/api-refs/upload-api/), [REST](https://uploadcare.com/api-refs/rest-api/) and [URL](https://uploadcare.com/api-refs/url-api/) Uploadcare APIs.
* [Upload](https://uploadcare.com/docs/uploads/) files from anywhere via API or ready-made File Uploader
* [Manage](https://uploadcare.com/docs/start/file-management/) stored files and perform various actions and conversions with them
* [Optimize](https://uploadcare.com/docs/transformations/image/compression/) and [transform](https://uploadcare.com/docs/transformations/image/) images on the fly
* [Deliver](https://uploadcare.com/docs/delivery/) files fast and secure
## Documentation
Detailed specification of this library is available [on RTD](https://pyuploadcare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
Please note that this package uses Uploadcare [API keys](https://app.uploadcare.com/projects/-/api-keys) and is intended to be used in server-side code only.
## Installation
In order to install `pyuploadcare`, run these command in CLI:
```bash
pip install pyuploadcare
```
To use in Django project install with extra dependencies:
```bash
pip install pyuploadcare[django]
```
## Requirements
* Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
To use pyuploadcare with Python 3.6 or 3.7 please install `pyuploadcare < 5.0`.
To use pyuploadcare with Python 2.7 please install `pyuploadcare < 3.0`.
Django compatibility:
| Py/Dj | 2.2 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
| ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 3.8 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| 3.9 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| 3.10 | | | | X | X | X | X | X |
| 3.11 | | | | | | X | X | X |
| 3.12 | | | | | | | X | X |
## Usage
After package [installation](#requirements-and-installation), you’ll need API keys: public and secret. Get them in [Uploadcare dashboard](https://app.uploadcare.com/projects/-/api-keys). If you don’t have an account yet, you can use demo keys, as in example. However, the files on demo account are regularly removed, so create an account as soon as Uploadcare catches your fancy.
In these examples we’re going to use the aforementioned demo keys.
### Basic usage
Let’s start with the basics. Say, you want to upload a file:
```python
from pyuploadcare import Uploadcare
uploadcare = Uploadcare(public_key="demopublickey", secret_key="demoprivatekey")
with open("sample-file.jpeg", "rb") as file_object:
ucare_file = uploadcare.upload(file_object)
```
And your file is now uploaded to the Uploadcare CDN. But how do you access it from the web? It’s really simple:
```python
print(ucare_file.cdn_url) # file URL, e.g.: https://ucarecdn.com/640fe4b7-7352-42ca-8d87-0e4387957157/
```
And what about information about the file?
```python
from pprint import pprint
pprint(ucare_file.info)
# {'appdata': None,
# 'content_info': {'image': {'color_mode': ,
# 'datetime_original': datetime.datetime(2023, 3, 10, 16, 23, 15),
# 'dpi': (72, 72),
# 'format': 'JPEG',
# 'geo_location': None,
# 'height': 4516,
# 'orientation': 1,
# 'sequence': False,
# 'width': 3011},
# 'mime': {'mime': 'image/jpeg',
# 'subtype': 'jpeg',
# 'type': 'image'},
# 'video': None},
# 'datetime_removed': None,
# 'datetime_stored': datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 16, 14, 44, 29, 637342, tzinfo=TzInfo(UTC)),
# 'datetime_uploaded': datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 16, 14, 44, 29, 395043, tzinfo=TzInfo(UTC)),
# 'is_image': True,
# 'is_ready': True,
# 'metadata': {},
# 'mime_type': 'image/jpeg',
# 'original_file_url': 'https://ucarecdn.com/640fe4b7-7352-42ca-8d87-0e4387957157/samplefile.jpeg',
# 'original_filename': 'sample-file.jpeg',
# 'size': 3518420,
# 'source': None,
# 'url': 'https://api.uploadcare.com/files/640fe4b7-7352-42ca-8d87-0e4387957157/',
# 'uuid': UUID('640fe4b7-7352-42ca-8d87-0e4387957157'),
# 'variations': None}
```
A whole slew of different file operations are available. Do you want to crop your image, but don't want important information (faces, objects) to be cropped? You can do that with content-aware (“smart”) crop:
```python
from pyuploadcare.transformations.image import ImageTransformation, ScaleCropMode
# These two function calls are equivalent
ucare_file.set_effects("scale_crop/512x512/smart/")
ucare_file.set_effects(ImageTransformation().scale_crop(512, 512, mode=ScaleCropMode.smart))
print(ucare_file.cdn_url) # https://ucarecdn.com/640fe4b7-7352-42ca-8d87-0e4387957157/-/scale_crop/512x512/smart/
```
There’s a lot more to uncover. For more information please refer to the [documentation](#documentation).
### Django integration
Let's add [File Uploader](https://uploadcare.com/docs/file-uploader/) to an existing Django project.
We will allow users to upload their images through a nice and modern UI within the standard Django admin or outside of it, and then display these images on the website and modify them using advanced Uploadcare CDN features.
Assume you have a Django project with `gallery` app.
Add `pyuploadcare.dj` into `INSTALLED_APPS`:
```python
INSTALLED_APPS = (
# ...
"pyuploadcare.dj",
"gallery",
)
```
Add API keys to your Django settings file:
```python
UPLOADCARE = {
"pub_key": "demopublickey",
"secret": "demoprivatekey",
}
```
Uploadcare image field adding to your `gallery/models.py` is really simple. Like that:
```python
from django.db import models
from pyuploadcare.dj.models import ImageField
class Photo(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
photo = ImageField()
```
`ImageField` 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 as well:
Obviously, you would want to use Uploadcare field outside an admin. It’s going to work just as well, but, however, you have to remember to add `{{ form.media }}` in the `` tag of your page:
```htmldjango
{{ form.media }}
```
This is a default Django form property which is going to render any scripts needed for the form to work, in our case — Uploadcare scripts.
After an image is uploaded, you can deliver it while transforming it on the fly:
```htmldjango
{% for photo in photos %}
{{ photo.title }}
{% endfor %}
```
(Refer to Uploadcare [image processing docs](https://uploadcare.com/docs/transformations/image/) for more information).
## Testing
To run tests using [Github Actions](https://github.com/uploadcare/pyuploadcare/actions) workflows, but locally, install the [act](https://github.com/nektos/act) utility, and then run it:
```make test_with_github_actions```
This runs the full suite of tests across Python and Django versions.
## Demo app
We've developed a demo app that showcases most of the features. You can install [pyuploadcare-example](https://github.com/uploadcare/pyuploadcare-example) using Docker or without it. You can use it as a reference or even base your project on it.
## Suggestions and questions
[Contributing guide](https://github.com/uploadcare/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
[Security policy](https://github.com/uploadcare/pyuploadcare/security/policy)
[Support](https://github.com/uploadcare/.github/blob/master/SUPPORT.md)
