Need to create thumbnail from user submitted url like reddit/facebook
You'll first need to parse the html content for img src urls with something like lxml or BeautifulSoup. Then, you can feed one of those img src urls into sorl-thumbnail or easy-thumbnails as Edmon suggests.
I am pretty new to Django so I am creating a project to learn more about how it works. Right now I have a model that contains a URL field. I want to automatically generate a thumbnail from this url field by taking an appropriate image from the webite like facebook or reddit does. I'm guessing that I should store this image in an image field. What would be a good way to select an ideal image from the website and how can I accomplish this?
EDIT- I'm trying to take actual images from the website rather than a picture of the website