django-import-export 4.3.11

Django application and library for importing and exporting data with included admin integration.

Introduction

Straightforward, reliable and comprehensive file import / export for your Django application.

django-import-export is an application and library which lets you manage import / export from / to a variety of sources (csv, xlsx, json etc).

Can be run programmatically, or with optional integration with the Django Admin site:

https://github.com/django-import-export/django-import-export/assets/6249838/ab56d8ba-c307-4bdf-8fa9-225669c72b37

Screenshots

Features

• Import / export via Admin UI Integration or programmatically

• Import to and from a variety of file formats (csv, json, xlsx, pandas, HTML, YAML… and anything else that tablib supports)

• Preview data before importing in Admin UI

• Support for bulk import

• Handles CRUD (and ‘skip’) operations during import

• Flexible handling of foreign key relationships

• Many-to-many relationship support

• Validation of imported data

• Define custom transformations for exported data

• Import / export the same model instance as different views

• Export using natural keys for portability between environments

• Select items for export via the Admin UI object list

• Select fields for export via the export form

• Export single object instances

• Use django permissions to control import / export authorization

• Internationalization support

• Based on tablib

• Support for MySQL / PostgreSQL / SQLite

• Extensible - add custom logic to control import / export

• Handle import from various character encodings

• Celery integration

• Test locally with Docker

• Comprehensive documentation

• Extensible API

• test coverage :100:

• Supports dark mode :rocket:

Example use-cases

django-import-export is designed to be extensible and can be used to support a variety of operations. Here are some examples of how it has been used in the wild:

• Configure external cron jobs to run an import or export at set times

• Use permissions to define a subset of users able to import and export project data

• Safely update project reference data by importing from version controlled csv

• Create portable data to transfer between environments using natural keys

• Manage user access to an application by importing externally version controlled auth user lists

• Add hooks to anonymize data on export

• Modify import / export UI forms to add dynamic filtering on import / export.

• Build a migration layer between platforms, for example take a Wordpress export and import to Wagtail

Getting started

• Installation

• Getting started

• Example application

Help and support

• Documentation

• FAQ

• Getting help

• Contributing

• Become a sponsor

• Join our discord

• Tutorial videos on YouTube

• Raise a security issue

Commercial support

Commercial support is provided by Bellaport Systems Ltd

Releases

• Release notes

• Changelog