Programatically save ImageField in Django

django-image-save.py

import requests

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


def save_image_from_url(model, url):
    r = requests.get(url)

    img_temp = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=True)
    img_temp.write(r.content)
    img_temp.flush()

    model.image.save("image.jpg", File(img_temp), save=True)