Upload image available at public URL to S3 using boto

Question

I\'m working in a Python web environment and I can simply upload a file from the filesystem to S3 using boto\'s key.set_contents_from_filename(path/to/file). However, I\'d l

Answer 1

import boto
from boto.s3.key import Key
from boto.s3.connection import OrdinaryCallingFormat
from urllib import urlopen


def upload_images_s3(img_url):
    try:
        connection = boto.connect_s3('access_key', 'secret_key', calling_format=OrdinaryCallingFormat())       
        bucket = connection.get_bucket('boto-demo-1519388451')
        file_obj = Key(bucket)
        file_obj.key = img_url.split('/')[::-1][0]
        fp = urlopen(img_url)
        result = file_obj.set_contents_from_string(fp.read())
    except Exception, e:
        return e