Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 9. Data Import and Export

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Importing data from a local CSV file
• Importing data from a local Excel file
• Importing data from an external JSON file
• Importing data from an external XML file
• Creating filterable RSS feeds
• Using Tastypie to create API
• Using Django REST framework to create API

Introduction

There are times when your data needs to be transported from a local format to the database, imported from external resources, or provided to third parties. In this chapter, we will take a look at some practical examples of how to write management commands and APIs to do this.