If you want to download and save an image from an external url, this snippet might help you!

load_image_to _model.py

from django.core.files import File
from django.core.files.uploadedfile import InMemoryUploadedFile
from django.core.files.temp import NamedTemporaryFile

from newspaper import Article
import requests

from myapp.models import Blog, Category, Tags

__author__ = 'jerinisready'
__doc__ = """If you want to download and save an image from an external url, this snippet might help you!"""

def save_image_from_url(obj, url):
    r = requests.get(url)
    name = url.split("/")[-1]
    img_temp = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=True)
    img_temp.write(r.content)
    img_temp.flush()
    obj.picture.save(name, File(img_temp), save=False)


def import_blog_from_url(url, user):
    """ import_blog_from_url(Url:string, User:<DjangoUserModel>)  """
        :return <Blog>
    """
    article.nlp(),
    some_of_the_useful_apis_of_package_newspaper = [
        article.url,
        article.clean_top_node,
        article.article_html.replace('\n', ''),
        article.top_image,
        article.authors[0],
        article.title.replace('\n', ''),
        article.summary.replace('\n', ''),
        article.keywords
    ]
    """
    article = Article(url, keep_article_html=True)
    article.download()
    article.parse()
    
    b = Blog()
    b.title = article.title.replace('\n', '')
    article.nlp()
    b.meta_desc = article.summary.replace('\n', '')[:250]
    b.content = article.article_html.replace('\n', '')
    b.publish_date = None
    b.image_credit_url = b.image_credit = article.top_image
    save_image_from_url(b, article.top_image)     # article.top_image: Image URL 
    b.video = None
    b.scrapped_author = article.authors[0]
    b.own_blog = False
    b.is_draft = False
    b.is_edited = False
    b.external_url = article.url
    b.user = user
    b.save()
    b.tags.add(*Tag.objects.all()[:2])    # ", ".join(article.meta_keywords)    # article.publish_date
    b.categories.add(*Category.objects.all()[:2])
    return b