How to create server of files with FastAPI
In this example I will show you how to upload, download, delete and obtain files with FastAPI
2 min readJul 29, 2021
How to upload files by Form Data using FastAPI
In the following code we define the file field, it is there where we will receive the file by Form Data
from fastapi import FastAPI, UploadFile, Fileapp = FastAPI()@app.post("/upload")
async def upload_file(file: UploadFile = File(...)):
with open(file.filename, 'wb') as image:
content = await file.read()
image.write(content)
image.close()
return JSONResponse(content={"filename": file.filename},
status_code=200)
How to download files using FastAPI
from fastapi import FastAPI
from os import getcwd
from fastapi.responses import FileResponseapp = FastAPI()@router.get("/download/{name_file}")
def download_file(name_file: str):
return FileResponse(path=getcwd() + "/" + name_file, media_type='application/octet-stream', filename=name_file)
How to get files using FastAPI
from fastapi import FastAPI
from os import getcwd
from fastapi.responses import FileResponseapp = FastAPI()@router.get("/file/{name_file}")
def get_file(name_file: str):
return FileResponse(path=getcwd() + "/" + name_file)
How to delete files using FastAPI
from fastapi import FastAPI
from os import getcwd, remove
from fastapi.responses import JSONResponseapp = FastAPI()@router.delete("/delete/file/{name_file}")
def delete_file(name_file: str):
try:
remove(getcwd() + "/" + name_file)
return JSONResponse(content={
"removed": True
}, status_code=200)
except FileNotFoundError:
return JSONResponse(content={
"removed": False,
"error_message": "File not found"
}, status_code=404)