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:

.. code:: python

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:

.. code:: python

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

Example usage

Use in Jinja2 template:

.. code:: html

<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 <http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/ImageOps.html#PIL.ImageOps.fit>`_.

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


Develop and Production
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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']``:

.. code:: python

    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:

.. code:: python

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