Django get the static files URL in view

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I'm using reportlab pdfgen to create a PDF. In the PDF there is an image created by drawImage. For this I either need the URL to an image or the path to an image in the view. I managed to build the URL but how would I get the local path to the image?

How I get the URL:

prefix = 'https://' if request.is_secure() else 'http://'
image_url = prefix + request.get_host() + STATIC_URL + "images/logo_80.png"
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8 Answers

From Django 3.0 you should use from django.templatetags.static import static:

from django.templatetags.static import static

...

img_url = static('images/logo_80.png')
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Use the default static tag:

from django.templatetags.static import static
static('favicon.ico')

There is another tag in django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles (as in the accepted answer), but it is deprecated in Django 2.0+.

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@dyve's answer didn't work for me in the development server. Instead I solved it with find. Here is the function:

from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.staticfiles.finders import find
from django.templatetags.static import static

def get_static(path):
    if settings.DEBUG:
        return find(path)
    else:
        return static(path)
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If you want to get absolute url(including protocol,host and port), you can use request.build_absolute_uri function shown as below:

from django.contrib.staticfiles.storage import staticfiles_storage
self.request.build_absolute_uri(staticfiles_storage.url('my-static-image.png'))
# 'http://localhost:8000/static/my-static-image.png'
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In short words you need to get

  • STATIC_URL
  • STATIC_ROOT
  • urlpatterns
  • staticfiles
  • templatetags
  • url parameters

All in the right place, to get this working. In addition, in real time deployment, circumstances vary, which it is very possible that the current setting you spent 3 hours worked out, works on your local machine but the server.

So I adopted the traditional way!!

app
├── static
│   └── json
│       └── data.json
└── views.py

views.py

import os

with open(os.path.abspath(os.getcwd()) + '/app/static/json/data.json', 'r') as f:
    pass
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