How to create an image from binary data returned by a request to store and use in Django app?

I am using the Dropbox API Explorer - get_thumbnail to get a thumbnail of images stored following the get_thumbnail documentation

The response returns a blob in binary. I am attempting to create a image file to store as an imagefield on my django app's database.

I followed this Quickstart to create the image.

# get_thumbnail request
url = "https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_thumbnail"

# product_path is a variable storing path from list_folder
new_product_path = "{\"path\":\"/%s\"}" %(product_path)
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <api_token_ommitted>",
    "Dropbox-API-Arg": new_product_path
}

r = requests.post(url, headers=headers)

thumbnail = Image.open(BytesIO(r.content))

# album is foreign key for Album model
product = Product.objects.create(album=album, name=converted_name, image=converted_url, thumbnail=thumbnail)
print('Product has been created!')

The results of print(r.content):

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Solution

I have tried to convert bytes data to image as follows, if your data in bytes format, I think following code will help you

bytes_data = b'\xff\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10JFIF\x00'

with open("path/image.png", "wb") as f:
   f.write(bytes_data)

Add the new path of image to image field. For more details refer following