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  1. I am trying to upload an image file to cloudinary which I have sent from my django template to a function in views.py

  2. The file is in request.FILES['image']

            cloudinary.config(
            cloud_name="p*****",
            api_key="33************",
            api_secret="4***-S***_o*********"
        )
        img_obj = request.FILES['image']
        cloudinary_response = cloudinary.uploader.upload(img_obj)
        image_url = cloudinary_response['url']

  3. Printing img_obj gives the name of the image (Like : "tree.jpg")

  4. cloudinary upload doc is as follows https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference#upload

  5. The type of img_obj is InMemoryUploadedFile. Now is there a way to convert it to base64 or somthing like that so I can upload.

  6. Or any other solution ??

Apon
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  • Possible duplicate of [Encode Base64 Django ImageField Stream](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36179539/encode-base64-django-imagefield-stream) – Clément Denoix Nov 23 '17 at 09:36

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You have a few options:

  1. img_obj.file is the actual file object, so you could try uploading that directly.
  2. Since an InMemoryUploadedFile is a subclass of File, you can also just open(mode='rb') the file, using standard python file io functions.
  3. Or you can try img_obj.file.read()

I would go for the second option:

import base64

with img_obj.open("rb") as image_file:
     encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())
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