Django hit counter application that tracks the number of hits/views for chosen objects
Project description
NOTE (02/23/2013) - I have not been actively maintaining this app (as anyone can tell from my levels of participation these last few years). I apologize for that because I, myself, hate seeing open source solutions fade with time. To that end, I would prefer to point people to an active fork of the project. If you have a fork, or know of a good fork to use, please let me know and I will post the links/recommendations here. It’s been fun sharing. -Damon
Django-HitCount
Basic app that allows you to track the number of hits/views for a particular object.
For more information you can view comments in the source code or visit:
<http://damontimm.com/code/django-hitcount/>
What it is not
This is not meant to be a user tracking app (see: [django-tracking][1]) or a comprehensive site traffic monitoring tool (see: Google Analytics).
It’s meant to serve as a simple hit counter for chosen objects with a couple useful features (user-agent, session, and IP tracking) and tools to help you on your way.
Contribute
I would love to make it better. Please fork and push. Some fun additions might be [1] a nice graphing utility for the admin site, [2] another approach to caputring a hit (other than jQuery), and [3] a cleanup tool that can remove Hit objects after a certain period (cron job).
Installation:
Simplest way to formally install is to run:
./setup.py install
Or, you could do a PIP installation:
pip install -e git://github.com/thornomad/django-hitcount.git#egg=django-hitcount
Or, you can link the source to your site-packages directory. This is useful if you plan on pulling future changes and don’t want to keep running ./setup.py install.
cd ~/src git clone git://github.com/thornomad/django-hitcount.git sudo ln -s pwd/django-hitcount/hitcount python -c “from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()”/hitcount
Special thanks to ariddell for putting the setup.py package together.
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