django-easy-autoslug 1.0.4

Automatic slug for django

This package is used to automatically create unique slugs.

Install

pip install django-easy-autoslug

Usage

Basic example

# models.py

from django_autoslugfield import AutoSlugField

class Item(models.Model):
        title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
        slug = AutoSlugField(max_length=255, unique=True)

Slug is created from __str__ method. If another object with same slug already exists slug will be suffixed with number -2, -3 …

Advanced usage

AutoSlugField arguments are:

• reserve_chars - number of characters reserved for suffix (including sparator -)

• title_field - use specific field instread of __str__ method

• in_respect_to - generate unique slug for specific subset of fields

Following code can create same slug for another month / year.

from django_autoslugfield import AutoSlugField

class Blog(models.Model):
        title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
        slug = AutoSlugField(filter_fields=('year', 'month'), max_length=255)
        year = models.IntegerField()
        month = models.IntegerField()

        class Meta:
                unique_together = ('slug', 'year', 'month')