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A flask server for serving all JPEG images in a local directory and subdirectories. Uses unveil.js for lazy-loading of images. Thumbnails are created on the fly by PIL.
#!/bin/python
import os
from flask import Flask, Response, request, abort, render_template_string, send_from_directory
import Image
import StringIO
app = Flask(__name__)
WIDTH = 1000
HEIGHT = 800
TEMPLATE = '''
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
background-color: #333;
}
.image {
display: block;
margin: 2em auto;
background-color: #444;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}
img {
display: block;
}
</style>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="http://luis-almeida.github.io/unveil/jquery.unveil.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('img').unveil(1000);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
{% for image in images %}
<a class="image" href="{{ image.src }}" style="width: {{ image.width }}px; height: {{ image.height }}px">
<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" data-src="{{ image.src }}?w={{ image.width }}&amp;h={{ image.height }}" width="{{ image.width }}" height="{{ image.height }}" />
</a>
{% endfor %}
</body>
'''
@app.route('/<path:filename>')
def image(filename):
try:
w = int(request.args['w'])
h = int(request.args['h'])
except (KeyError, ValueError):
return send_from_directory('.', filename)
try:
im = Image.open(filename)
im.thumbnail((w, h), Image.ANTIALIAS)
io = StringIO.StringIO()
im.save(io, format='JPEG')
return Response(io.getvalue(), mimetype='image/jpeg')
except IOError:
abort(404)
return send_from_directory('.', filename)
@app.route('/')
def index():
images = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):
for filename in [os.path.join(root, name) for name in files]:
if not filename.endswith('.jpg'):
continue
im = Image.open(filename)
w, h = im.size
aspect = 1.0*w/h
if aspect > 1.0*WIDTH/HEIGHT:
width = min(w, WIDTH)
height = width/aspect
else:
height = min(h, HEIGHT)
width = height*aspect
images.append({
'width': int(width),
'height': int(height),
'src': filename
})
return render_template_string(TEMPLATE, **{
'images': images
})
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True, host='::')
@Marventex
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How can i put images? how can i make this server running on the app.. its been hours and still i dont have the solution.. please someone help me..

@musakhan666
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same here i also got stuck in that part of creating server

@Marventex
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Does yours crashes too when tapping on the add to cart button or going to the shopping cart screen?

@Marventex
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"The images should be named with the corresponding product ID, and jpg format is preferred. "
i really dont have any idea how to implement this..

@musakhan666
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same here it does crash

@Marventex
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do you think the images have something to do with it? the crashing ?
do you think if we can put images the app wont crash anymore?

@Marventex
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do you have any facebook account or email? so we can have a decent talk.

@kingsofcoms
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import os
from flask import Flask, Response, request, abort, render_template_string, send_from_directory
from PIL import Image
import StringIO

app = Flask(__name__)

WIDTH = 640
HEIGHT = 360

TEMPLATE = '''
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
background-color: #333;
}
.image {
display: inline-block;
margin: 3em 14px;
background-color: #444;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}
img {
display: block;
}
</style>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="http://luis-almeida.github.io/unveil/jquery.unveil.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script>

$(document).ready(function() {
$('img').unveil(1000);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
{% for image in images %}
    <a class="image" href="{{ image.src }}" style="width: {{ image.width }}px; height: {{ image.height }}px">
        <img src="{{ image.src }}" data-src="{{ image.src }}?w={{ image.width }}&amp;h={{ image.height }}" width="{{ image.width }}" height="{{ image.height }}" />
    </a>
{% endfor %}
</body>
'''

@app.route('/<path:filename>')
def image(filename):
try:
    w = int(request.args['w'])
    h = int(request.args['h'])
except (KeyError, ValueError):
    return send_from_directory('.', filename)

try:
    im = Image.open(filename)
    im.thumbnail((w, h), Image.ANTIALIAS)
    io = StringIO.StringIO()
    im.save(io, format='JPEG')
    return Response(io.getvalue(), mimetype='image/jpeg')

except IOError:
    abort(404)

return send_from_directory('.', filename)

@app.route('/')
def index():
images = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):
    files.sort()
    for filename in [os.path.join(root, name) for name in files]:
        if not filename.endswith('.png'):
            continue
        im = Image.open(filename)
        w, h = im.size
        aspect = 1.0*w/h
        if aspect > 1.0*WIDTH/HEIGHT:
            width = min(w, WIDTH)
            height = width/aspect
        else:
            height = min(h, HEIGHT)
            width = height*aspect
        images.append({
            'width': int(width),
            'height': int(height),
            'src': filename
        })

return render_template_string(TEMPLATE, **{
    'images': images
})

if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(host="127.0.0.1", port="3000")

install flask, pillow
Save as app.py
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python app.py

@mustafa-qamaruddin
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Very helpful, thank you
I only had to change StringIO to BytesIO

@daschkin
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Hello,
thank you a lot for this useful flask-app. I have a question:
If I run the app, then images in the same directory as app.py-file are displayed on website without any problems. If I change a directory to other path (not a subpath of current project), the app can lists the files, but doesn't display it. Can it be a rights issue? Or can you give me a hint, how I can solve this issue?
I thank you in advance for your help!

@eddie4
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eddie4 commented Jul 15, 2018

Thanks for this. I had to fix some indent stuff and a thing in the template. Have fun with it.

ps. replace if not filename.endswith('.jpg'): with you're extension

import os
from flask import Flask, Response, request, abort, render_template_string, send_from_directory
from PIL import Image
import StringIO

app = Flask(__name__)

WIDTH = 640
HEIGHT = 360

TEMPLATE = '''
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <style>
body {
    margin: 0;
    background-color: #333;
}
.image {
    display: block;
    margin: 2em auto;
    background-color: #444;
    box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}
img {
    display: block;
}
    </style>
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
    <script src="http://luis-almeida.github.io/unveil/jquery.unveil.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
    <script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('img').unveil(1000);
});
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    {% for image in images %}
        <a class="image" href="{{ image.src }}" style="width: {{ image.width }}px; height: {{ image.height }}px">
            <img src="{{ image.src }}" data-src="{{ image.src }}?w={{ image.width }}&amp;h={{ image.height }}" width="{{ image.width }}" height="{{ image.height }}" />
        </a>
    {% endfor %}
</body>
'''

@app.route('/<path:filename>')
def image(filename):
    try:
        w = int(request.args['w'])
        h = int(request.args['h'])
    except (KeyError, ValueError):
        return send_from_directory('.', filename)

    try:
        im = Image.open(filename)
        im.thumbnail((w, h), Image.ANTIALIAS)
        io = StringIO.StringIO()
        im.save(io, format='JPEG')
        return Response(io.getvalue(), mimetype='image/jpeg')

    except IOError:
        abort(404)

    return send_from_directory('.', filename)

@app.route('/')
def index():
    images = []
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):
        files.sort()
        for filename in [os.path.join(root, name) for name in files]:
            if not filename.endswith('.jpg'):
                continue
            im = Image.open(filename)
            w, h = im.size
            aspect = 1.0*w/h
            print filename
            if aspect > 1.0*WIDTH/HEIGHT:
                width = min(w, WIDTH)
                height = width/aspect
            else:
                height = min(h, HEIGHT)
                width = height*aspect
            images.append({
                'width': int(width),
                'height': int(height),
                'src': filename
            })
    return render_template_string(TEMPLATE, **{
        'images': images
    })

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host="127.0.0.1", port=3000)

@adv-ai-tech
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Extremely Thanks for the code. I had been trying this for past 6 hours!!

@roman-ku
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roman-ku commented Jan 1, 2019

After having trouble with all the scripts posted so far I made my own. Python 3.5+ compatible.

Here are the changes I had to make:

  • Change import Image to from PIL import Image
  • Change import StringIO to from io import BytesIO
  • Change io = StringIO.StringIO() to io = BytesIO()
  • Change $('img').unveil(1000); to $('img').unveil();
  • Change <script src="http://luis-almeida.github.io/unveil/jquery.unveil.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script> to <script src="jquery.unveil.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
  • Download the jquery.unveil.js script and place it in the same file as the server.py

You can find the updated code in my gist

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