django-apestorage

apestorage is a so called development storage engine.

Many people have the problem with gigantomanic production databases with gigabytes of pictures/files. It is a pain to keep the image files synchronised between development and production environments.

Therefore I have written this storage engine. In case a file is not found, an image from placeape.com will be used/displayed instead.

If you are sick of apes, you might want to check out django-dogstorage or django-kittenstorage.

sorl-thumbnail users

Note that newer versions of sorl-thumbnail have an integrated dummy engine, which can load images from various dummy sources. This is super cool and I highly recommend this over dogstorage. Go and have a look at THUMBNAIL_DUMMY.

The setting for placeholder apes source would be:

THUMBNAIL_DUMMY_SOURCE = http://placeape.com/%(width)s/%(height)s

or if you prefer grayscale:

THUMBNAIL_DUMMY_SOURCE = http://placeape.com/g/%(width)s/%(height)s

Setup

It's on pypi.

pip install django-apestorage

Feel free to clone from github too. Forking is welcome as well :-)

In your django settings file:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'apestorage.storages.GreyApe'

Storage Engines

apestorage offers two engines:

1. apestorage.storages.GreyApe
2. apestorage.storages.ColorApe

Choose depending on the saturation you want. I prefer GreyApe since it does have a pretty classy look.

Settings

There is only one setting:

APE_SIZE

Default: (1024, 1024)

A tuple of format (width, height), specifiying the size of the image requested from placeape.