Use the Django ORM in a standalone script (again)

Question

I\'m trying to use the Django ORM in some standalone screen scraping scripts. I know this question has been asked before, but I\'m unable to figure out a good solution for my pa

Answer 1

I know this question is six years old but this alternative might appeal to someone searching this topic. Assuming Django's manage.py is in project/, and assuming main() is the script's entrypoint, then let Django take the strain:

./manage.py shell -c 'from scrape.test import main; main()'

Answer 2

Found an easy way to reuse existing django app's settings for console script:

from django.core.management import setup_environ

import settings
setup_environ(settings)

from myapp.models import Object

for o in Object.objects.all():
    print o

Answer 3

Are you sure it shouldn't be:

sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.abspath('..'), 'web'))

Also, make sure there's an __init__.py file (empty is fine) in project/web/django_project.

P.S. I'd recommend feeding os.path.join's output to os.path.abspath instead of the other way.