Django: save an image from URL (works on Amazon S3)

save_image_from_url.py

from django.core.files.storage import default_storage
from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
 
import os
import uuid
import urllib
 
 
def save_image_from_url(url):
 
    path = 'uploads/'
     
    try:
        filename = os.path.basename(url)
        extension = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
        format = uuid.uuid1().hex + extension
        path = os.path.join(path, format)
         
        f = urllib.urlopen(url)
         
        saved = default_storage.save(path, ContentFile(f.read()))
         
        return saved
     
    except IOError, e:
        print e

settings.py

# Set the default file storage.
 
# If you're using Amazon S3:
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'