Appengine Files Api – part 1: Storing/Fetching remote images in Blobstore using Django

Here is a quick tutorial on how to fetch remote images with the new Files API on Google Appengine 1.4.3 released March 30th. These examples use Django. Before we begin, read up on how to write files to blobstore using the Files API. Prior to the 1.4.3 release of the SDK, the only way to get files into the blobstore (and thus leverage things like BlobInfo) was to upload them via a POST request. To...