django-admin-shell

Django application can execute python code in your project\'s environment on django admin site. You can use similar as [python manage shell]{.title-ref} without reloading the environment.

Tested by tox with:
- Python : 3.7, 3.8, 3.10
- Django : 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.2
Require:
- Django >= 1.10
Tested on browsers
- OK - Chromium 108 - Ubuntu 20.04
- OK - Firefox 112.0.2 - Ubuntu 20.04
- OK - Chromium 89 - Ubuntu 18.04
- OK - Firefox 87.0 - Ubuntu 18.04
- OK - Chromium 79.0 - Ubuntu 18.04
- OK - Firefox 72.0.2 - Ubuntu 18.04
- OK - Firefox 50.1.0 - Ubuntu 14.04
- OK - Firefox 31.1 - CentOS 6.4
- OK - Chromium 53.0 - Ubuntu 14.04
- OK - Microsoft Edge 38 - Windows 10
- OK - Internet Explorer 11.0 - Windows 8.1
- OK - Internet Explorer 10.0 - Windows 7
- OK - Internet Explorer 9.0 - Windows 7
- ERR - Internet Explorer 8.0 - Windows 7 (javascripts not working / console work properly)

Screens

Django admin shell view

Shell in action

Install

Install:

pip install django-admin-shell

or

pip install git+https://github.com/djk2/django-admin-shell.git

or after download zip

pip install django-admin-shell.zip

Add [django_admin_shell]{.title-ref} to your INSTALLED_APPS setting

settings.py :

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_admin_shell',
    ...
]

Add the [django_admin_shell]{.title-ref} urls to your root url patterns (above admin/) :

urls.py :

urlpatterns = [
    re_path(r'^admin/shell/', include('django_admin_shell.urls')),
    ...
    re_path(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

Usage

shell is available on url: /admin/shell
On default settings user must be authenticated to django admin site and User must have superuser permission and DEBUG mode must be set on True.

::: note ::: title Note :::

Make sure that in your project session is enable

More about session and how enabling session read here : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/sessions/

Usually default session in django project is enable :::

Demo

Try [django-admin-shell]{.title-ref} using simple demo app:

Clone project

git clone https://github.com/djk2/django-admin-shell.git
Go to [demo]{.title-ref} directory:

cd django-admin-shell/demo
Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt
Run demo project

./manage.py runserver
Go to \"http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/shell\" and login to [admin]{.title-ref} user with password [admin]{.title-ref}

Settings

ADMIN_SHELL_ENABLE

type : bool

default : True

If shell is enable or disable. When application is disable then url: /admin/shell return Http404 Not found

ADMIN_SHELL_ONLY_DEBUG_MODE

type : bool

default : True

If flag is set on True, then shell is available only in DEBUG mode.

If debug mode is required and debug mode is disabled then url: /admin/shell will return Http 403 Forbidden

ADMIN_SHELL_ONLY_FOR_SUPERUSER

type : bool

default : True

If flag is set on True, then shell is available only for user with superuser permission.

If superuser is required and user not have permission then url: /admin/shell will return Http 403 Forbidden

ADMIN_SHELL_OUTPUT_SIZE

type : integer

default : 250

Flag determines how many outputs can be remember.

ADMIN_SHELL_SESSION_KEY

type : string

default : django_admin_shell_output

Name for key in session where is stored history last executed codes.

ADMIN_SHELL_IMPORT_DJANGO

type : bool

default : True

If flag is set on True, then useful libraries and packages from Django will be automatically imported to shell. For example: [from django.conf import settings]{.title-ref}, so in shell you have directly access to attributes from this module (e.g [settings.INSTALLED_APPS]{.title-ref}). List of automatically imported modules is displayed on top of console (screen below). If you want disable auto import for django packages, set this flag to [False]{.title-ref}.

Nont: If during import occurred error `ImportError` then this module will be omitted.

Auto import section

ADMIN_SHELL_IMPORT_MODELS

type : bool

default : True

This flag is similar to [ADMIN_SHELL_IMPORT_DJANGO]{.title-ref} but regarding auto import of models from all registered applications. If flag is set on True, then models from all apps will be automatically imported to shell. For example: [from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission, Group, User]{.title-ref}, so in shell you have directly access to this classes. List of automatically imported models is displayed on top of console. If you want disable auto import for models, set this flag to [False]{.title-ref}.

Nont: If during import occurred error `ImportError` then this module will be omitted.

ADMIN_SHELL_CLEAR_SCOPE_ON_CLEAR_HISTORY \^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^ type : bool

default : False

This flag is used to enable the gargabe collector on the declared variables from the shell execution when the \"clear history\" is executed. If this flag is set to [True]{.title-ref}, then all the declared variables will be ERASED and FREED from memory on runtime when \"clear history\" is used. If you want to persist indefinitly all declared variables on the shell, set this flag to [False]{.title-ref}.

BEWARE: leaving this disabled is not recomended on production code!

Code examples

show django settings:

from django.conf import settings

for key in dir(settings):
    val = getattr(settings, key, None)
    print(key, "=", val)

run command in operating system and take output:

import os

os.system('date > /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
os.system('echo ------- >> /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
os.system('who >> /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
os.system('echo ------- >> /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
os.system('ps aux | grep python >> /tmp/admin_console.tmp')

with open('/tmp/admin_console.tmp', 'r') as f:
    print(f.read())

run big python code (get python source from website):

import requests

req = requests.get('http://foo.bar.com/example.py')
if req.status_code == 200:
    code = req.text
    print(code, '\n------------\n')
    exec(code)

Useful for me:

Similar projects:

https://github.com/onrik/django-webshell