Static file serving

Streamlit apps can host and serve small, static media files to support media embedding use cases that won't work with the normal media elements.

To enable this feature, set enableStaticServing = true under [server] in your config file, or environment variable STREAMLIT_SERVER_ENABLE_STATIC_SERVING=true.

Media stored in the folder ./static/ relative to the running app file is served at path app/static/[filename], such as http://localhost:8501/app/static/cat.png.

Details on usage

Files with the following extensions will be served normally: ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".gif". Any other file will be sent with header Content-Type:text/plain which will cause browsers to render in plain text. This is included for security - other file types that need to render should be hosted outside the app.
Streamlit also sets X-Content-Type-Options:nosniff for all files rendered from the static directory.
For apps running on Streamlit Community Cloud:
- Files available in the Github repo will always be served. Any files generated while the app is running, such as based on user interaction (file upload, etc), are not guaranteed to persist across user sessions.
- Apps which store and serve many files, or large files, may run into resource limits and be shut down.

Example usage

Put an image cat.png in the folder ./static/
Add enableStaticServing = true under [server] in your .streamlit/config.toml
Any media in the ./static/ folder is served at the relative URL like app/static/cat.png

# .streamlit/config.toml

[server]
enableStaticServing = true

# app.py
import streamlit as st

with st.echo():
    st.title("CAT")

    st.markdown("[![Click me](app/static/cat.png)](https://streamlit.io)")

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