How to copy InMemoryUploadedFile object to disk

This is similar question, it might help.

import osfrom django.core.files.storage import default_storagefrom django.core.files.base import ContentFilefrom django.conf import settingsdata = request.FILES['image'] # or self.files['image'] in your formpath = default_storage.save('tmp/somename.mp3', ContentFile(data.read()))tmp_file = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, path)

As mentioned by @Sławomir Lenart, when uploading large files, you don't want to clog up system memory with a data.read().

From Django docs :

Looping over UploadedFile.chunks() instead of using read() ensures that large files don't overwhelm your system's memory

from django.core.files.storage import default_storagefilename = "whatever.xyz" # received file namefile_obj = request.data['file']with default_storage.open('tmp/'+filename, 'wb+') as destination:    for chunk in file_obj.chunks():        destination.write(chunk)

This will save the file at MEDIA_ROOT/tmp/ as your default_storage will unless told otherwise.

Here is another way to do it with python's mkstemp:

### get the inmemory filedata = request.FILES.get('file') # get the file from the curl### write the data to a temp filetup = tempfile.mkstemp() # make a tmp filef = os.fdopen(tup[0], 'w') # open the tmp file for writingf.write(data.read()) # write the tmp filef.close()### return the path of the filefilepath = tup[1] # get the filepathreturn filepath