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Simple stream file proxy with Flask and Requests
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app.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from flask import Flask
from flask import Response
from flask import stream_with_context
import requests
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/<path:url>')
def home(url):
req = requests.get(url, stream = True)
return Response(stream_with_context(req.iter_content()), content_type = req.headers['content-type'])
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run()
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thavelick commented Jul 18, 2016 •
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Note that iter_content() uses a chunk_size of 1 byte by default which makes proxying large files pretty slow. In some cases req.iter_content(chunk_size=1024) will work better.

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@thavelick Thanks, req.iter_content(chunk_size=1024) worked great!

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