How to run Django views from a script?

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I am writing a Django management command that visits a few pages, logged in as a superuser, and saves the results to a set of .html files.

Right now I'm just using the requests library and running the command with the development server running. Is there an easy way to generate the HTML from a view response so I do without actual HTTP requests?

I could create a request object from scratch but that seems like more overhead than the current solution. I was hoping for something simple.

aumo · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-01 15:01:54Z

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Django has a RequestFactory which seems to suit your needs.

answered May 1, 2015 at 15:01

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knbk · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-01 15:03:10Z

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While it's not exactly meant for this purpose, an option would be to use the testing framework's Client to fake a request to the url - be sure to use client.login() before making your requests, to ensure you have superuser capabilities.

answered May 1, 2015 at 15:03

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