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A simple snippet to zip files in a directory and send it the browser in downloadable format in django
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| from shutil import make_archive | |
| from wsgiref.util import FileWrapper | |
| def download(request, file_name=""): | |
| """ | |
| A django view to zip files in directory and send it as downloadable response to the browser. | |
| Args: | |
| @request: Django request object | |
| @file_name: Name of the directory to be zipped | |
| Returns: | |
| A downloadable Http response | |
| """ | |
| files_path = "/tmp/albums/" | |
| path_to_zip = make_archive(files_path, "zip", files_path) | |
| response = HttpResponse(FileWrapper(open(path_to_zip,'rb')), content_type='application/zip') | |
| response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="{filename}.zip"'.format( | |
| filename = file_name.replace(" ", "_") | |
| ) | |
| return response | |
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