Django Visit Count

Count visits using cache for Django models.

Installation

1. Set-up Django's cache framework.

2. Install the Python package.

   pip install django_visit_count
   

Usage

Use VisitCountMixin. It adds a visit_count field to your model.

from django_visit_count.mixins import VisitCountMixin

class MyBlogPost(VisitCountMixin, models.Model):
    ...

Create and run migrations on your model.

$ python manage.py makemigrations my_blog_app
$ python manage.py migrate my_blog_app

Count visits in your view like this:

def view_blog_post(request, post_id):
    post = get_object_or_404(MyBlogPost, pk=post_id)
    post.count_visit()
    ...

Advanced Usage

If you need more control, you can use is_new_visit function.

class MyBlogPost(models.Model):
    total_visits = models.PositiveIntegerField(default=0)
    ...

from django_visit_count.utils import is_new_visit

def view_blog_post(request, post_id):
    post = get_object_or_404(MyBlogPost, pk=post_id)

    if is_new_visit(request, post):
        post.total_visits = F("total_visits") + 1
        post.save(update_fields=["total_visits"])

    ...

You can pass an optional keyword argument session_duration (integer, number of seconds) to count_visit or is_new_visit.

Settings

Default settings:

VISIT_COUNT_DEFAULT_SESSION_DURATION = 5 * 60  # seconds

Development

• Install development dependencies in your virtualenv with pip install -e '.[dev]'
• Install pre-commit hooks using pre-commit install.

License

MIT