Django views on articles

Question

How to count the number of unique views on articles?

class Article(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length = 300)
    post = RichTextUploadingField(blank=True, default='')
    date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    views = models.IntegerField(default='0')



    def __str__(self):
        return "%s" % (self.title)

okay, imagine that there is a field: views= models.IntegerField(default = '0') — Vladyslav Oliinyk, Mar 27 '18 at 17:53
Possible duplicate of [Track the number of "page views" or "hits" of an object?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1603340/track-the-number-of-page-views-or-hits-of-an-object) — Szymon P., Mar 27 '18 at 17:54

Druhin Bala · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-28T02:04:42.270

You probably want to store the unique hits in a model like this:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User


class HitCount(models.Model):
    article = models.ForeignKey(Article, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    hits = models.PositiveIntegerField()

And then to get stats you would do something like:

all_hits_by_specific_user = Hitcount.objects.filter(article=somearticle,
                                                    user=someuser).first().hits

total_unique_hits = HitCount.objects.count()

Django views on articles

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