django-kittenstorage

kittenstorage 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 placekitten.com will be used/displayed instead.

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

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 kittenstorage. Go and have a look at THUMBNAIL_DUMMY.

The setting for placeholder kittens source would be:

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

or if you prefer grayscale:

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

Setup

It's on pypi.

pip install django-kittenstorage

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

In your django settings file:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'kittenstorage.storages.GreyKitten'

Storage Engines

kittenstorage offers two engines:

1. kittenstorage.storages.GreyKitten
2. kittenstorage.storages.ColorKitten

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

Settings

There is only one setting:

KITTEN_SIZE

Default: (1024, 1024)

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