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Serving dynamically generated ZIP archives in Django
(Feel free to point me to any potential duplicates if I have missed them)
I have looked at this snippet: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/365/
and this answer:
but I wonder how I can tweak them to suit my need: I want multiple files to be zipped and the archive available as a download via a link (or dynamically generated via a view). I am new to Python and Django so I don't know how to go about it.
Thank in advance!
I've posted this on the duplicate question which Willy linked to, but since questions with a bounty cannot be closed as a duplicate, might as well copy it here too:
import os
import zipfile
import StringIO
from django.http import HttpResponse
def getfiles(request):
# Files (local path) to put in the .zip
# FIXME: Change this (get paths from DB etc)
filenames = ["/tmp/file1.txt", "/tmp/file2.txt"]
# Folder name in ZIP archive which contains the above files
# E.g [thearchive.zip]/somefiles/file2.txt
# FIXME: Set this to something better
zip_subdir = "somefiles"
zip_filename = "%s.zip" % zip_subdir
# Open StringIO to grab in-memory ZIP contents
s = StringIO()
# The zip compressor
zf = zipfile.ZipFile(s, "w")
for fpath in filenames:
# Calculate path for file in zip
fdir, fname = os.path.split(fpath)
zip_path = os.path.join(zip_subdir, fname)
# Add file, at correct path
zf.write(fpath, zip_path)
# Must close zip for all contents to be written
zf.close()
# Grab ZIP file from in-memory, make response with correct MIME-type
resp = HttpResponse(s.getvalue(), mimetype = "application/x-zip-compressed")
# ..and correct content-disposition
resp['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s' % zip_filename
return resp