django freeze

:ice_cube: convert your dynamic django site to a static one with one line of code.

fabiocaccamo

Python

django-freeze

django-freeze generates the static version of your django site.

Just run python manage.py generate_static_site 😃

Features

Generate the static version of your Django site, optionally compressed .zip file
Generate/download the static site using urls (only superuser and staff)
Follow sitemap.xml urls
Follow internal links founded in each page
Follow redirects
Report invalid/broken urls
Selectively include/exclude media and static files
Custom base url (very useful if the static site will run in a specific folder different by the document-root)
Convert urls to relative urls (very useful if the static site will run offline or in an unknown folder different by the document-root)
Prevent local directory index

Installation

Run pip install django-freeze
Add freeze to settings.INSTALLED_APPS
Enable the sites framework (instructions here)
Restart your application server

Configuration (optional)

All these settings are optional, if not defined in settings.py the default values (listed below) will be used.


#the absolute path where to store the .zip and the html files
#default value is a folder named 'freeze' located as sibling of 'settings.MEDIA_ROOT'
FREEZE_ROOT = '/...'

#tells 'freeze' if the urls should be fetched using https instead of http protocol (only if FREEZE_SITE_URL is not defined)
FREEZE_USE_HTTPS = False

#the site-url to crawl, if not specified it will be autodetected using the sites app
FREEZE_SITE_URL = 'http://mydomain.com'

#the base-url for all links relative to root '/'
#useful if the generated static site will run in a specific folder which is not the document-root
FREEZE_BASE_URL = None

#if True 'freeze' will convert all absolute urls to relative urls
#useful if the generated static site will run locally (file://) or in an unknown folder which is not the document-root (only if FREEZE_BASE_URL is not defined)
FREEZE_RELATIVE_URLS = False

#if True 'freeze' will inject a script at the end of each page
#which will force hrefs like 'path/' to 'path/index.html' (only if the site is running under file://)
#useful if the generated static site will run locally (requires FREEZE_RELATIVE_URLS set to True) to prevent local directory index
FREEZE_LOCAL_URLS = False

#if True 'freeze' will fetch each url founded in sitemap.xml
FREEZE_FOLLOW_SITEMAP_URLS = True

#if True 'freeze' will follow and fetch recursively each link-url founded in each page
FREEZE_FOLLOW_HTML_URLS = True

#if true 'freeze' will send an email to managers containing the list of all invalid urls (404, 500, etc..)
FREEZE_REPORT_INVALID_URLS = False

#the invalid urls email report subject
FREEZE_REPORT_INVALID_URLS_SUBJECT = '[freeze] invalid urls'

#if True the generated site will contain also the MEDIA folder and ALL its content
FREEZE_INCLUDE_MEDIA = True
#elif the value is a list or tuple only the specified directories will be included
FREEZE_INCLUDE_MEDIA = ('cache', 'images', 'videos', )

#if True the generated site will contain also the STATIC folder and ALL its content
FREEZE_INCLUDE_STATIC = True
#elif the value is a list or tuple only the specified directories will be included
FREEZE_INCLUDE_STATIC = ('myapp1', 'myapp2', 'myapp3', )

#if True the generated site will be zipped, the *.zip file will be created in FREEZE_ROOT
FREEZE_ZIP_ALL = False

#the name of the zip file created
FREEZE_ZIP_NAME = 'freeze'

#The request headers to use during the get requests that scrape the site
#can be used to set Authentication headers, by default sets the user-agent
FREEZE_REQUEST_HEADERS = {'user-agent': 'django-freeze'}

Add freeze.urls to urls.py if you want superusers and staff able to use freeze urls.

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    url(r'^freeze/', include('freeze.urls')),
    ...
)

Usage

Terminal

Run python manage.py generate_static_site

URLs

Superusers and staff can use the following urls to download a .zip containing the generated static site or to just generate the static website.

/freeze/download-static-site/

/freeze/generate-static-site/

(the time necessary to generate the static site depends on the size of the project)

TODO

Write tests
Add sitemap.xml and robots.txt to the generated static site

Testing

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/fabiocaccamo/django-extra-settings.git && cd django-extra-settings

# create virtualenv and activate it
python -m venv venv && . venv/bin/activate

# upgrade pip
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

# install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-test.txt

# install pre-commit to run formatters and linters
pre-commit install --install-hooks

# run tests
tox
# or
python runtests.py
# or
python -m django test --settings "tests.settings"

License

Released under MIT License.

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