How can I get a list of absolute image URLs from a Django QuerySet?

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In Django, what is the best way to construct the absolute path to an image URL when you're using a CDN to serve media files? In my case, I have a QuerySet of Movie objects, and I want to retrieve the absolute URL of the image attribute of the movie, where image is an ImageField. Is there any way to do this by using a template tag or the values() function of the QuerySet API?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '12 at 04:35

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I solve this by prefixing the url for the model field with the MEDIA_URL value from settings.py. You could create a property on the model that returns this concatenated path as whatever name you'd like.

Example:

@property
def get_absolute_image_url(self):
    return '%s%s' % (MEDIA_URL, self.image.url)

answered Feb 22 '12 at 04:35

Brandon Taylor

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The `image.url` will already have the media prefix on it, I believe. – nhinkle Jan 05 '14 at 08:10
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At the time this question was answered in 2012, the image url did not have the media prefix prepended. – Brandon Taylor Sep 19 '14 at 10:49

How can I get a list of absolute image URLs from a Django QuerySet?

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