Django save image from url and connect with ImageField

from django.db import models
from django.core.files import File
from urllib.request import urlopen
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile

class Item(models.Model):
    image_file = models.ImageField(upload_to='images')
    image_url = models.URLField()

...

def get_remote_image(self):
    if self.image_url and not self.image_file:
        img_temp = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=True)
        img_temp.write(urlopen(self.image_url).read())
        img_temp.flush()
        self.image_file.save(f"image_{self.pk}", File(img_temp))
    self.save()

This solution avoid any utf-8 errors received during url process.

It works only with python 3.6+ because the f string.

Check this link: https://twigstechtips.blogspot.com/2012/04/django-programmatically-saving-image.html

from django.core.files import File
import os

class Item(models.Model):
    image_file = models.ImageField(upload_to='images')
    image_url = models.URLField()

...

def get_remote_image(self):
    if self.image_url and not self.image_file:
        result = urllib.urlretrieve(self.image_url)
        self.image_file.save(
                os.path.basename(self.image_url),
                File(open(result[0]))
                )
        self.save()

You can override the default save() method to automatically invoke get_remote_image().

See: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#overriding-model-methods