Track the number of "page views" or "hits" of an object?

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I am sure that someone has a pluggable app (or tutorial) out there that approximates this, but I have having trouble finding it: I want to be able to track the number of "views" a particular object has (just like a question here on stackoverflow has a "view count").

If the user isn't logged in, I wouldn't mind attempting to place a cookie (or log an IP) so they can't inadvertently run up the view count by refreshing the page; and if a user is logged in, only allow them one "view" across sessions/browsers/IP addresses. I don't think I need it any fancier than that.

I figure the best way to do this is with Middleware that is decoupled from the various models I want to track and using an F expression (of sorts) -- other questions on StackOverflow have alluded to this (1), (2), (3).

But I wonder if this code exists out in the wild already -- because I am not the savviest coder and I'm sure someone could do it better. Smile.

Have you seen it?

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I know this question is an old one and also thornomad has put an app to solve the problem and inspire me with me solution. I would like to share this solution since I didn't find much information about this topic and it may help someone else. My approach is to make a generic model can be used with any view based on the view path (url).

models.py

class UrlHit(models.Model):
    url     = models.URLField()
    hits    = models.PositiveIntegerField(default=0)

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.url)

    def increase(self):
        self.hits += 1
        self.save()


class HitCount(models.Model):
    url_hit = models.ForeignKey(UrlHit, editable=False, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    ip      = models.CharField(max_length=40)
    session = models.CharField(max_length=40)
    date    = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

views.py

def get_client_ip(request):
    x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')
    if x_forwarded_for:
        ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[0]
    else:
        ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')
    return ip

def hit_count(request):
    if not request.session.session_key:
        request.session.save()
    s_key = request.session.session_key
    ip = get_client_ip(request)
    url, url_created = UrlHit.objects.get_or_create(url=request.path)

    if url_created:
        track, created = HitCount.objects.get_or_create(url_hit=url, ip=ip, session=s_key)
        if created:
            url.increase()
            request.session[ip] = ip
            request.session[request.path] = request.path
    else:
        if ip and request.path not in request.session:
            track, created = HitCount.objects.get_or_create(url_hit=url, ip=ip, session=s_key)
            if created:
                url.increase()
                request.session[ip] = ip
                request.session[request.path] = request.path
    return url.hits
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