FastAPI Storages

A collection of backend storages and ORM extensions to simplify file management in FastAPI and Starlette projects.

Similar to django-storages project, but aiming to work with a wider range of database ORMs and backends.

Documentation: https://smithyhq.github.io/fastapi-storages

Source Code: https://github.com/smithyhq/fastapi-storages

Installation

pip install fastapi-storages

Install optional extras based on what you need:

pip install 'fastapi-storages[s3]'
pip install 'fastapi-storages[sqlalchemy]'
pip install 'fastapi-storages[peewee]'
pip install 'fastapi-storages[image]'
pip install 'fastapi-storages[full]'

Supported integrations

• SQLAlchemy
• SQLModel
• SQLAdmin

Supported storage backends

• FileSystemStorage
• S3Storage

Example

from fastapi import FastAPI, UploadFile
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session, declarative_base
from fastapi_storages import FileSystemStorage
from fastapi_storages.integrations.sqlalchemy import FileType

app = FastAPI()
Base = declarative_base()
engine = create_engine("sqlite:///test.db")


class Example(Base):
    __tablename__ = "example"

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    file = Column(FileType(storage=FileSystemStorage(path="/tmp")))


# Create database and table
Base.metadata.create_all(engine)


@app.post("/upload/")
def create_upload_file(file: UploadFile):
    example = Example(file=file)
    with Session(engine) as session:
        session.add(example)
        session.commit()
        return {"filename": example.file.name}