Thanks Melvyn, looks exactly like what I wanted! Will investigate. I had a feeling this could not be a novel or unique use case.
Regards, Bernd. On Monday, 4 June 2018 20:09:25 UTC+10, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > > On maandag 4 juni 2018 08:00:08 CEST Bernd Wechner wrote: > > > Say I have a page on my Django website (because I do) that I would like > to > > > take a snapshot of on an automated basis on the server itself with a > > > crontab say. I imagine writing a small python script that I could run, > that > > > loads Django, a settings file, knows a URL and has a way of saying "give > me > > > the rendered page for that URL please" and save it in a file. > > > > ... > > > > > a) there's a canonical way to do this already that can be recommended > > > > Yep. The test client > <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/testing/tools/#the-test-client>... > > if your template uses request related information (like logged in user). > The cheaper method is something like this code > <https://github.com/melvyn-sopacua/django_xtc/blob/master/xtc/__init__.py#L49>, > > but this only renders the template and you'd have to provide a context so > view code is bypassed. > > > > -- > > Melvyn Sopacua > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/850bfcaa-0518-48ef-a827-087100efda92%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
