Package: django-metaimage
django-metaimage is a GPL-licensed app for the Django web framework.
Many sites deal with images/photos, which usually come from three
sources: uploaded by a user, pulled from the Internet via a URL, or
generated server-side.  For the latter two cases, django-metaimage
should be helpful: a new instance can take either a remote image URL,
or raw image data as a string (e.g. as might be produced via
Matplotlib).The main MetaImage model provides a wrapper of useful functionality
around ImageModel from the powerful django-photologue app (a
dependency).  Some of the django-metaimage code was initially inspired
from Pinax’s photo app, but I have removed Pinax dependencies, so that
django-metaimage only requires:Djangodjango-photologuedjango-autoslugdjango-taggitdjango-uni-form, trunk (optional)You might need django-uni-form, if you want to use the included
example templates, and want to see all django-metaimage’s tests pass.In sum, this app is provides more flexibility with local
representation of images on your site from multiple sources, whether
uploaded, from remote images, or sever-side generated images.UsageThe main class, MetaImage, enables storing useful metadata about
images, including a title, caption, notes about the source
(e.g. copyrights, permissions), and tags.  MetaImage attributes
include:title, slug, caption, source_note (for attribution text, copyrights, etc.)source_url (if any)privacysafetyleveltagsNow, to handle the two cases of storing images that the app was made
for: retrieval of a remote image from its URL (you’ll have a local
copy in case the image moves/disappears), or storing a server-side
generated image:With a remote image, simply specify the source_url field in the new
MetaImage instance and save it, e.g.new_metaimage = MetaImage(
    title='Django logo',
    source_url='http://media.djangoproject.com/img/site/hdr_logo.gif',
    source_note='The logo of the Django project.',
    creator=foo_user)
new_metaimage.save()  # Will download, save source_url locally.With a server-side generated image - as a string object - one would
send in the keyword argument image_data when saving, e.g.new_metaimage = MetaImage(
    title='Chart of f(x)',
    source_note='Chart of f(x) generated by Matplotlib.',
    creator=foo_user)
new_metaimage.save(image_data=a_png_as_str)Useful MetaImage methods include:render() and render_linked(), which spits out the HTML to show your
image on a webpage, with a hyperlink to a details-page.Basic views, tests, and templates are also provided, so you can
quickly integrate the app into an existing Django site.InstallationInstall via “pip install django-metaimage” or from source. You may
also need to do pip install for django-taggit, django-autoslug, and
photologue.Then update your Django project’s settings.py file: add “photologue”,
“taggit” and “metaimage” (autoslug does not need to be there) in the
INSTALLED_APPS list, e.g.INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "photologue",
    "taggit",
    "metaimage",
    ...
    ]And then, do a “manage.py syncdb” to create the database tables
needed.OPTIONAL: Templates are provided for adding, editing, viewing, etc. of
metaimages; they’re very basic and meant only as a starting point.
But if you want to use them directly, do at least these two things:Get and install django-uni-form > 0.7.0 which some of the templates
rely on, and also update your setting.py INSTALLED_APPS to list
“uni_form” as a package dependency.Update your site-wide urls.py, e.g.urlpatterns = patterns("",
    ...
    (r"^metaimage/", include("metaimage.urls")),
    ...
    )Also, many of the django-metaimage templates have templatetags
dependencies that are commented out, as they require Pinax or other
packages; you can activate them as needed, but be sure to update your
INSTALLED_APPS accordingly.TestingI’ve included a set of unit tests for the app; if you have integrated
django-metaimage into an existing Django site/project, just do the
usual “manage.py test” and the tests should be run, BUT for all tests
to pass, the current trunk (as of 2/2011) of django-uni-form is
needed:https://github.com/pydanny/django-uni-formShould you want to run django-metaimage’s test suite outside of any
particular Django site/project - i.e. stand-alone Django app testing -
I suggest installing and using the django-app-test-runner and my fork
of it at:https://github.com/limist/django-app-test-runner…which enables usage of a testing-specific settings file.  After you
install django-app-test-runner in your virtualenv (don’t develop in
Python without it!) you should be able to do something like:cd to/where/django-metaimage/code/is
app-test-runner ./src/metaimage/ -s src/metaimage/testsettings.pyNote that you’ll need Internet connectivity for the tests to pass.Errors, etc.Please log errors/issues using django-metaimage’s github site,http://github.com/limist/django-metaimage/issues