Download file from django html template

Open the browser and execute the following URL that will display the file. If the user clicks on the download link, the CF. If this file exists in the base location of the app, then the following dialog box will appear. The user can open the file in the browser or the document viewer before the download or download the file directly without opening it by selecting the Save File option and pressing the OK button.

Adding a download option for text and PDF files in the Django application was shown in this tutorial using a simple script. The new Django users will get an idea to add a download option without and with a download link in the Django app after reading this tutorial. I am a trainer of web programming courses. I like to write article or tutorial on various IT topics. The download option is a general requirement for any website like the online book, free application software, free games, etc.

The file can be downloaded after executing a particular URL or clicking the download link and getting permission from the user. If you already have created another folder for all the templates and specified it in settings. Open views. You can change file name and path as per your requirement.

If you want to download the file via template, just add the hyperlink to the file as shown below in any template. In this case, you need to modify the views. In the above code, if the filename is empty, then Django will load file. You can use the same method for downloading PDF files or other types of files too. Just update the hyperlink in file. Alternatively, you can also fetch the file path from database, if you want.

In settings. Here the first function index is used to render the starting page where, the user will fill the forms. Second function index2 is used to submit the form created in the index html page to our model upload. After saving the model we are going to call all the objects from the model and render to the index2 html page. HTML :- Here in this file we had created a form with method equals to post and specify the action or the URL to relocate after the user clicks on the submit button.

HTML:- Here, this file is loaded when the user clicks the submit button in the index. Here we passed all the objects of our model which specifies the title and URL of the uploaded file. If you focus on the anchor tag, I had passed the URL of the file in HREF and specified the keyword download inside it, so that when the user clicks the link instead of redirecting to a new page, it will download the file.