Upload image to azure blob storage using python

Question

I have an image directory named images which contains image files as:

images
    --0001.png
    --0002.jpg
    --0003.png

Now I want to upload this directory to my azure blob storage with the same file structure. I looked at the sample code given here and here but:

1. Even after installing azure-blob-storage, there is no such thing as BlobService in that package.
2. Is there any place where it is clearly documented how to do this?

Answer 1

Here is my sample code works fine for me.

import os
from azure.storage.blob import BlockBlobService

root_path = '<your root path>'
dir_name = 'images'
path = f"{root_path}/{dir_name}"
file_names = os.listdir(path)

account_name = '<your account name>'
account_key = '<your account key>'
container_name = '<your container name, such as `test` for me>'

block_blob_service = BlockBlobService(
    account_name=account_name,
    account_key=account_key
)

for file_name in file_names:
    blob_name = f"{dir_name}/{file_name}"
    file_path = f"{path}/{file_name}"
    block_blob_service.create_blob_from_path(container_name, blob_name, file_path)

The result as the figure below be screenshot from Azure Storage Explorer.

For more details about API references of Azure Storage SDK for Python, please refer to https://azure-storage.readthedocs.io/index.html.

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Update: My used Python version is Python 3.7.4 on Windows, and the required package is azure-storage==0.36.0, you can find it from https://pypi.org/project/azure-storage/.

1. $ virtualenv test
2. $ cd test
3. $ Scripts\active
4. $ pip install azure-storage

Then, you can run my sample code via python upload_images.py in the current Python virtual environment.