django-external-urls

Captures clicks on external links, and invokes a callback (signal).

Useful for tracking outbound links.

pip install django-external-urls

Settings:

Add to settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'external_urls',
)

Add to url.py:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'', include('external_urls.urls')),
)

Usage:

The templates can be used as follows:

{% load external_urls %}
{% external_url object.website %}
{% external_url "http://example.com/" %}

Sends a Signal, external_link:

from external_links.signals import external_click
from django.dispatch import receiver

@receiver(external_click)
def my_callback(sender, url, ip):
    print("tracked click to {} from {}".format(url, ip))

Metadata

Release files for django-external-urls 0.3

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for django-external-urls 0.3
File	Size	Uploaded
django-external-urls-0.3.tar.gz	2.5 kB	Sep 28, 2015	Details

Release files / django-external-urls-0.3.tar.gz

Download URL	django-external-urls-0.3.tar.gz
Size	2.5 kB
Tags	Source
SHA-256 checksum How to use checksums	`efbc20c7773486c57702042c2dccf9799bade21dee5ef8e8745a54dc2f13fb0d`
BLAKE2b-256 checksum How to use checksums	`a2a5cc9b86e2abd2735fccbd13bac66902f9be0749183167f99438084f7cee3d`
Upload date	Sep 28, 2015
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? What is trusted publishing?	No