Thumbor URL Aliases plugin

thumbor_aliases let's you create custom urls to redirect your most-used request using a friendly url.

Imagine that your company decides that all thumbnails should go to 100x100/smart.

Wouldn't be awesome to just name this url: thumbnail? So, if you need to change it later, you can even just modify the alias to point to 200x200/smart instead, without having to change your application code.

Install

Before installing, be sure you're using Python2.7 (Python3 isn't supported yet).

Install it by using pip:

$  pip install thumbor-aliases

Easy, right?

Configure

Create, if not done yet, your thumbor config file:

$ thumbor-config > config.cfg

And enable thumbor_aliases plugin on community extensions. This can be done by just adding next lines at the end of configuration file:

COMMUNITY_EXTENSIONS = [
  'thumbor_aliases',
  ...
]

By default it will use the yaml_file storage handler, which reads a file located on ~/aliases.yml.

In case you want to change the file location, you can set the config variable: ALIASES_STORAGE_FILE

ALIASES_STORAGE_FILE = "~/your_custom_filename.yml"

The YAML file should follow next format:

alias: "url/to/redirect"

For example:

thumbnail: "100x100/smart"
header: "800x200/smart"

And in order to finally execute the app and let the magic happen, run next command:

$ thumbor --conf=your_thumbor_config.cfg -a tc_core.app.App