/s3-image-upload

Push and Serve images to/from a designated S3 bucket.

Primary LanguageCSS

S3 Image Upload & Retrieve

Simple server (written in Python/Django) for uploading images to a designated AWS S3 Bucket

Installation Steps

  1. Clone repository on your computer

  2. Make sure python and pip are installed on your machine

  3. From the project root, use pip to install requirements

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt

  4. Set the AWS S3 Access Information in environment variables

    $ export S3_BUCKET_NAME=DESIREDBUCKETNAME
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AWSACCESSKEYID
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=AWSSECRETACCESSKEY

  5. Run the project:

    $ python s3_upload/manage.py runserver

  6. Navigate to 127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser (tested on Safari desktop and Chrome). There's a small page on the index that can be used to test the server endpoints

Server Endpoints

POST: /api/images/ - Posts the submitted images to the specifed S3 bucket

GET: /api/images/[image_id] - Retrieves the specified image from S3 and serves the image