Django 2 by Example

Adding full-text search to your blog

Now, you will add search capabilities to your blog. The Django ORM allows you to perform simple matching operations using, for example, the contains filter (or its case-insensitive version, icontains). You can use the following query to find posts that contain the word framework in their body:

from blog.models import PostPost.objects.filter(body__contains='framework')

However, if you want to perform complex search lookups, retrieving results by similarity or by weighting terms, you will need to use a full-text search engine.

Django provides a powerful search functionality built on top of PostgreSQL full-text search features. The django.contrib.postgres module provides functionalities offered by PostgreSQL ...