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EasyVisitors

EasyVisitors is a simple to use Django App that counts website visitors and displays them without any hassles. It uses cookies to keep a track of how many people visited you website and doesnot increments simply upon a refresh unlike other simple counters.

• Easy to use
• Easy to setup
• Easy to configure
• Easy to customize

Installation

Installation is same for virtualenv and non virtualenv (because it is that simple XD)

> pip install EasyVisitors

Configration

In settings.py of your django project -

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'EasyVisitors',
    ...
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'EasyVisitors.middleware.VisitorCounterMiddleware',
    ...
]

Getting Started

It is a local counter so it is necessary to create some space for recording it's values in the database. But no worries all of it has been taken care off. You just have to run -

> python manage.py makemigrations EasyVisitors

> python manage.py migrate EasyVisitors

This will create a simple table to store the values of the counter in the database. This step is very important as without these migrations the app wont be able to run as it wont be able to store it's values and hence will show an error.

Using the app

This simple to configure app is also simple to use. To use the value of counter in your templates -

{% raw %}
{{ request.visitors }}
{% endraw %}

And to use it anywhere else -

request.visitors

Customization

In settings.py of your django project you can customize some aspects of EasyVisitors app -

1. EASY_COUNTER_VISITOR_ALIVE_TIME - It determines how long a visitor is concidered as a unit and after that time, that user is concidered as a new vsitor. Datatype : int
   Unit : seconds
   Default: 300
    
2. EASY_COUNTER_IGNORED_PATHS - List comprising of all paths, which donot alter the state of the counter upon being visited.
   Datatype : list
   Default: ['/admin']
    
3. EASY_COUNTER_RESET - Value for the counter to begin from upon next refresh of any page. If it has any value except None then the counter will stay at that value forever untill changed to None after which it begins counting from that value.
   Datatype : int
   Default: None
   OnChange : Counter stay at the changed value
    

Creator

Deekshant Wadhwa

License

MIT