How to add search functionality to Django

Question

I want to add a search feature to find articles by title or content.

sysadmin · Accepted Answer

# views.py
from django.db.models import Q

def search(request):
    query = request.GET.get('q', '')
    results = []
    
    if query:
        results = Article.objects.filter(
            Q(title__icontains=query) |
            Q(content__icontains=query) |
            Q(tags__name__icontains=query)
        ).distinct()
    
    return render(request, 'search.html', {
        'query': query,
        'results': results
    })

# For full-text search with PostgreSQL
from django.contrib.postgres.search import SearchVector

results = Article.objects.annotate(
    search=SearchVector('title', 'content')
).filter(search=query)

How to add search functionality to Django

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