How to store IP address in the database and django admin

Question

Would like to store IP address of everybody who is coming to the site. What is the best approach to do this. Lets say have model

class ip(models.Model):     pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')     ip_address = models.GenericIPAddressField() 

What would be the code in models or in views or somewhere that I would save it in the database also would like to save it with user-agent info similar to this.

Answer 1

In views.py:

views.py:

    ....      x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')      if x_forwarded_for:         ipaddress = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[-1].strip()     else:         ipaddress = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')     get_ip= ip() #imported class from model     get_ip.ip_address= ipaddress     get_ip.pub_date = datetime.date.today() #import datetime     get_ip.save() 

Answer 2

I have gave the example from @Sahil Kalra using middleware,

Model:

class IpAddress(models.Model):     pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')     ip_address = models. GenericIPAddressField() 

Middleware:

import datetime  class SaveIpAddressMiddleware(object):     """         Save the Ip address if does not exist     """     def process_request(self, request):         x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')         if x_forwarded_for:             ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[-1].strip()         else:             ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')         try:             IpAddress.objects.get(ip_address=ip)         except IpAddress.DoesNotExist:             #-----Here My Edit               ip_address = IpAddress(ip_address=ip, pub_date=datetime.datetime.now())               ip_address.save()             return None 

Save the middleware some place in your project folder and In settings file add this middleware. Here is reference How to set django middleware in settings file