How to store your django media files in Dropbox
When we host our django site on platform like herokuapp, pythonanywhere, AWS etc we need one cloud storage to store our media files like images, PDF, documents, videos etc. Django supports various cloud storage platform
1 . Amazon S3
2. Dropbox
3. Cloudinary
4. Google cloud storage
5. Azure storage
This are some recommended cloud storage platforms. Here we will learn to use dropbox to store our django media files.
STEP-1 : Install Dropbox storage library in your project
Open terminal in your project directory and write below command in your terminal
pip install django-storages[dropbox]NOTE : for ubuntu use pip3 install django-storages[dropbox]
STEP-2 : Create App on drop box
- Click on create App
2. Fill options as shown in image below and give your app name as well.
3. After creating app goto permissions and give permissions as required by application to API for read/write of media files in storage.
STEP-3 : Integration with django
- Open settings.py in your django project
Write this code in your settings.py
you have to paste your your own dropbox_access_token
Where you will get your access token?
Go back to dropbox app console
Click on generate access token.
2. Copy that token and paste that in your code
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = ‘storages.backends.dropbox.DropBoxStorage’
DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN = ‘your access token’
DROPBOX_OAUTH2_TOKEN = ‘your OAUTH2 token’
Hurray!! we are done with it this is the easiest way to integrate no need to add/change code in models.py or settings.py
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