django-sqids is a simple and non-intrusive sqids library for Django. It acts as a model field, but it does not touch the database or change the model.

The project was forked from django-hashids to provide the same functionality with the newer Sqids library.

• Proxy the internal model pk field without storing the value in the database.
• Allows lookups and filtering by sqid string.
• Can be used as sort key
• Allows specifying a min_length and alphabet globally
• Supports custom min_length, and alphabet per field
• Supports Django REST Framework Serializers
• Supports exact ID searches in Django Admin when field is specified in search_fields.
• Supports common filtering lookups, such as __iexact, __contains, __icontains, though matching is the same as __exact.
• Supports other lookups: isnull, gt, gte, lt and lte.

pip install django-sqids

django-sqids is tested with Django 3.2, 4.2, 5.0 and Python 3.8 - 3.12.

Add SqidsField to any model

from django_sqids import SqidsField

class TestModel(Model):
    sqid = SqidsField(real_field_name="id")

TestModel.sqid field will proxy TestModel.id field but all queries will return and receive sqids strings. TestModel.id will work as before.

instance = TestModel.objects.create()
instance2 = TestModel.objects.create()
instance.id  # 1
instance2.id  # 2

# Allows access to the field
instance.sqid  # '1Z'
instance2.sqid  # '4x'

# Allows querying by the field
TestModel.objects.get(sqid="1Z")
TestModel.objects.filter(sqid="1Z")
TestModel.objects.filter(sqid__in=["1Z", "4x"])
TestModel.objects.filter(sqid__gt="1Z")  # same as id__gt=1, would return instance 2

# Allows usage in queryset.values
TestModel.objects.values_list("sqid", flat=True) # ["1Z", "4x"]
TestModel.objects.filter(sqid__in=TestModel.objects.values("sqid"))

You can use sqids to identify items in your URLs by treating them as slugs.

In urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    path("item/<slug>/", YourDetailView.as_view(), name="item-detail"),
]

And in your view:

class YourDetailView(DetailView):
    model = Item
    slug_field = 'sqid'

Add the field to your ModelAdmin's search_fields to quickly find a record by its Sqid:

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    search_fields = [
        "sqid__exact",
    ]

The folloing attributes can be added in settings file to set default arguments of SqidsField:

1. DJANGO_SQIDS_MIN_LENGTH: default minimum length
2. DJANGO_SQIDS_ALPHABET: default alphabet

SqidsField does not reqiure any arguments but the following arguments can be supplied to modify its behavior.

The argument sqids_instance is mutually exclusive to min_length and alphabet. See sqids-python for more info about the arguments.

Some common Model arguments such as verbose_name are also supported.

Sqids removed the "salt" parameter to prevent association with security or safety. django_sqids provides a useful shuffle_alphabet function that helps reintroduce the same idea:

from django_sqids import SqidsField, shuffle_alphabet

class MyModel(models.Model):
    # will use your configured default alphabet
    sqid = SqidsField(alphabet=shuffle_alphabet(seed='randomSeed'))

class HexModel(models.Model):
    sqid = SqidsField(alphabet=shuffle_alphabet(seed='randomSeed', alphabet='0123456789abcdef'))