How to Use django_filters in Your Django Project​

Areeba Seher | Lets Code More

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May 31, 2024

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For filtering and transforming data in Django, there is a powerful and user-friendly package called django-filters. When working with huge datasets or complex data structures, this module offers a convenient and adaptable approach to filter and manipulate data in your Django applications.

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Installation.

django-filters can be easily installed by pip

pip install django-filter

Then add ‘django_filters' to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.

# settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    .......
    'django_filters'
]

Getting Started

Let’s start with our models. We have a simple Product model.

# models.py

from django.db import models

class Product(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=150)
    price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=5, decimal_places=2)
    featured = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    update_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

The filter.