How to display twitter feeds based on users in django & tweepy? - django

Question

I want to show twitter data based on twitter username in my
template (Tweepy) but I don't know how to send data from my models into my views.
The content of models.py is:
<pre>
from django.db import models
from django.conf import settings
User = settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL
# Create your models here.
class Feed(models.Model):
owner = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
feed = models.CharField(max_length=211, blank=True, null=True)
twitter = models.CharField(max_length=211, blank=True, null=True) # this is the twitter username which the user can enter and be sent to the views to api.get_user(twitter)
def __str__(self):
return self.feed
</pre>
The content of views.py is:
<pre>
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.views.generic import TemplateView
from .tweet import *
from .models import Feed
def feed(request):
api = tweepyapi(request)
user = api.get_user(twitter) # I want this portion to be dynamic.
findfriends = user.friends()
return render(request, 'feeds/feeds.html', {
'user': user,
'findfriends': findfriends
})
</pre>

Answer 1

let's say you have Profile model related to User model via one-to-one relation
class UserProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="profile")
twitter_username = models.CharField(max_length=40, blank=True)
def get_absolute_url(self):
context = {
'id':self.id,
}
return reverse("viewprofile", kwargs=context)
and in your template, we provide a link to user's profile as
{% for user in user_list %}
{{ user.get_full_name }}
{% endfor %}
now assuming you are passing id of user in get_absolute_url, your url will look like
url(r'^(?P<id>[0-9]+)/$', views.feed, name="viewprofile")
and then in your view
def feed(request,id):
profile = get_object_or_404(UserProfile,user__id=id )
api = tweepyapi(request)
user = api.get_user(profile.twitter_username)
findfriends = user.friends()
return render(request, 'feeds/feeds.html', {
'user': user,
'findfriends': findfriends
})