{"id":7434,"date":"2024-03-14T05:31:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T05:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-get-the-size-of-an-uploaded-file-in-django\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:11:02","slug":"how-to-get-the-size-of-an-uploaded-file-in-django","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-get-the-size-of-an-uploaded-file-in-django\/","title":{"rendered":"Django File Size: Get Upload Size in Bytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To retrieve the size of an uploaded file in Django, you can follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In the view function, the first step is to retrieve the uploaded file object, which is usually done by accessing request.FILES.<\/li>\n<li>Use the size property of the file object to retrieve the size of the file, measured in bytes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The sample code is shown below:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">from<\/span> django.shortcuts <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> render\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">from<\/span> django.http <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> HttpResponse\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">def<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">upload_file<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-params\">request<\/span>):\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> request.method == <span class=\"hljs-string\">'POST'<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">and<\/span> request.FILES[<span class=\"hljs-string\">'file'<\/span>]:\r\n        uploaded_file = request.FILES[<span class=\"hljs-string\">'file'<\/span>]\r\n        file_size = uploaded_file.size\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> HttpResponse(<span class=\"hljs-string\">f'Uploaded file size: <span class=\"hljs-subst\">{file_size}<\/span> bytes'<\/span>)\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> render(request, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'upload_file.html'<\/span>)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, we first obtain the file object uploaded in the POST request, then use the size attribute to get the file&#8217;s size, and send it back to the client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To retrieve the size of an uploaded file in Django, you can follow these steps: In the view function, the first step is to retrieve the uploaded file object, which is usually done by accessing request.FILES. 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