Simple search in Django

Question

I have a really simple blog application and I want to add a really simple search feature to it.

There are 3 key fields to my model.

class BlogPost(models         


        

Answer 1

If you want it to work just like the admin, you could try my mini-lib Django simple search. It's basically a port of the admin search functionality. Install it with pip:

pip install django-simple-search

and use it like:

from simple_search import search_filter
from .models import BlogPost

search_fields = ['^title', 'intro', 'content']
query = 'search term here'
posts = BlogPost.objects.filter(search_filter(search_fields, query))

I also wrote a blog post about it: https://gregbrown.co/projects/django-simple-search