Django: get last user visit date

Question

In Django, we can get the time user last logged in by using Auth.User.last_login. That is only updated when the user logs in using his username/password. Supp

Answer 1

Example model:

class User(models.Model):
    last_visit = models.DateTimeField(...)
    ...

Example middleware which will be executed for all logged-in users:

from django.utils.timezone import now

class SetLastVisitMiddleware(object):
    def process_response(self, request, response):
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            # Update last visit time after request finished processing.
            User.objects.filter(pk=request.user.pk).update(last_visit=now())
        return response

Add the new middleware to Your settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'path.to.your.SetLastVisitMiddleware',
    ...
)

Warning: not tested, but doesn't require external packages to be installed and it's only 5 lines of code.

See more in the docs about Middleware and custom user models (since Django 1.5)