In flask, how do I serve images that are not in the static folder?
I currently save the user uploaded photos on a directory that is outside the flask folder (On
openshift
app-root/data
app-root/repo/
url_for
- data/
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-- uploads/
- repo/
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-- app/
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-- __init__.py
data/uploads
You have the send_from_directory function that does what you want, what I would do is declare a constant called MEDIA_FOLDER with the path where the media files are located and then, the only thing you need to do is to call the function like this:
from config import MEDIA_FOLDER
@app.route('/uploads/<path:filename>')
def download_file(filename):
return send_from_directory(MEDIA_FOLDER, filename, as_attachment=True)
Then, to invoke it, you just do this:
{{ url_for('download_file', filename='dogs.jpg') }}
You can have more info about this here.