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How to have Flask download a file and then serve it as an attachment
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| @app.route('/download/', methods=['GET']) | |
| def download(): | |
| url = request.args['url'] | |
| filename = request.args.get('filename', 'image.png') | |
| r = requests.get(url) | |
| strIO = StringIO.StringIO(r.content) | |
| return send_file(strIO, as_attachment=True, attachment_filename=filename) |
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very useful, thank you!