Django link to a specific users profile page

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I have a social media website that will allow a user to view another users profile page by clicking their username from one of their posts that appears in the feed section of my page. I have view_profile view created but need to pass in the desired users username into the view, to only show posts, activity, etc... made by that specific user. How do i pass the username into my view?

view_profile.html

<section id="main_feed_section" class="feed_sections">
    {% for post in posts %}
        <div class="post_main_container">
            <section class="post_title">
                <h1> <a href="{% url 'view_profile' %}">{{ post.user_id.username }}</a>{{ post.title }}</h1>
            </section>

            <section class="post_main_body">
                <p>{{ post.caption }}</p>
            </section>

            <section class="post_footer">
                <p>{{ post.date_posted }}</p>
            </section>
        </div>
    {% endfor %}
</section>

views.py

def view_profile(request):   
    account = "logan9997" #if a post made by logan9997 was clicked
    posts = [post for post in Posts.objects.all()
    if post.user_id.username == account]

    followers = [follower for follower in Relationships.objects.all()
    if follower.acc_followed_id.username == account]

    context = {
        "title":account,
        "posts":posts,
        "followers":followers
    }
    return render(request, "myApp/view_profile.html", context)

urls.py

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("home/", views.home, name="home"),
    path("create_post/", views.create_post, name="create_post"),
    path('view_profile/<str:username>', views.view_profile, name="view_profile"), 
]
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1 Answers

Add a variable to your view:

def view_profile(request, account):
    ...

And urls:

path('view_profile/<str:account>', ...)

Then you can go to url: localhost:8000/view_profile/logan9997.

You can do it better with User id:

path('view_profile/<int:pk>', ...)

def view_profile(request, pk):
    account = User.objects.get(id=pk).username
    ...

And go for: localhost:8000/view_profile/1

This is very not Django-style:

posts = [post for post in Posts.objects.all()
if post.user_id.username == account]

Use filter() method instead:

posts = Posts.objects.filter(user_id__username=account)
# and
followers = Relationships.objects.filter(acc_followed_id__username=account)
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