HTML5 upload with photo rotate/crop tools and Django backend

A reusable Django app to work with photo and file uploads.

• contains native JavaScript multifile drag and drop upload UI with instant thumbnails and progress bars, see upload/static/upload.js
• python/PIL backend for upload, cropping and rotation of photos
• seamless integration into Django projects
• image cropping UI (uses jQuery)

Thumbnails are generated using python PIL/Pillow using easy-thumbnails or compatible thumbnailing application such as sorl-thumbnails.

Uploaded files are grouped into collections, the collection model is swappable via settings, so uploaded files can be grouped to a Page, Gallery or RealityListing.

upload.js builds on the following HTML5 demos: http://html5demos.com/dnd-upload http://html5demos.com/file-api upload.js uses the W3C File API https://dev.opera.com/articles/w3c-file-api/

Installation (into a Django project)

To get the latest version from GitHub

pip install -e git+git://github.com/fmalina/upload.git#egg=upload

Add upload to your INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'upload',
)

Configure your settings to suit, see upload/app_settings.py. You can use the collection model provided or plug your own using settings.py:

UPLOAD['collection_model'] = 'yourcastleapp.Castle'

Add the upload URLs to your urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url('', include('upload.urls')),
]

Create your tables

./manage.py migrate upload

Usage

Setup a collection

This app supports multiple collections (or your custom model) with multiple files in each collection.

Add files

Drag and drop upload photos and files into your application. Files can have alternative description and are orderable (TODO, jQuery UI demo).

Remarks

Upload shines best for sites that need user uploaded photo galleries.

It will automatically shard the storage folder so as to not hit ext3 subfolder limit (~32000 folders).

Included is also a backup management tool to sync/download publicly uploaded files from server to a local machine.

Planned features

Current storage layout presumes collections to be related to users, which will be addressed in the next update.

Contribute

Fork it and send your pull request. File and issue. Mention on your blog, tweet, status update. Tell your dev friends and mention when complaining to sites that have poor upload features.

Flask reusability rewrite would be a welcome contribution, if you need another server backend such as for MongoDB or PHP please fork off and let me know how you get on.