{"id":3677,"date":"2018-07-03T04:07:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T04:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2020-12-02T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:48:24","slug":"create-and-download-zip-file-in-django-via-amazon-s3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/create-and-download-zip-file-in-django-via-amazon-s3\/","title":{"rendered":"Create and Download Zip file in Django Application via Amazon S3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, we were working on a task where we need to give an option to a user to download individual files or a zip of all files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can create a zip file using the following piece of code:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/yogendra-btc\/4675f9ed7ee9c72f681b02a1fdfcbad7.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, we import <i>ByteIO<\/i> from <i>io<\/i> package of python to read and write byte streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to import <i>the zip file<\/i> to create zip files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to import <i>os<\/i> for a store and delete file operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, we create an object of <i>ByteIO<\/i>. 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