mkrjhnsn / django-randomslugfield

A Django field that automatically generates random slugs.

django-randomslugfield

Django field that automatically generates random slugs.

e.g. example.com/kEwD58P

Tested with Python 2.7, 3.3+ and Django 1.4+.

Getting it

To install django-randomslugfield:

$ pip install django-randomslugfield

Install

To enable randomslugfield in your project you need to add it to INSTALLED_APPS in your projects settings.py file:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'randomslugfield',
    ...
)

Usage

Import RandomSlugField and use it in your model:

from django.db import models
from randomslugfield import RandomSlugField

class MyModel(models.Model):
    slug = RandomSlugField(length=7)

The length argument is required.

Advanced Usage

By default randomslugfield generates its slug using these characters:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789

You can optionally exclude lowercase/uppercase/digits/vowels using exclude_lower=True, exclude_upper=True, exclude_digits=True, exclude_vowels=True.

You cannot exclude all characters.

Example:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    slug = RandomSlugField(length=7, exclude_lower=True)

The total number of unique slugs is determined by characters^length.

62^9 = 13,537,086,546,263,552 possible slugs
62^8 = 218,340,105,584,896 possible slugs
62^7 = 3,521,614,606,208 possible slugs
62^6 = 56,800,235,584 possible slugs
62^5 = 916,132,832 possible slugs