How to Export Data from the Database into Excel using Django Python

In this tutorial, we will learn how to Export Data from the Database into Excel using Django. In this Django application, I used the pandas library.

Let’s start

Install  pandas library

First, create a Django project, then create models

Django Export Data From Database into Excel

models.py

from django.db import models
from Django import forms 

class tbl_Employee(models.Model):    
  #  Id = models.IntegerField()
    Empcode = models.CharField(max_length=10, default='')
    firstName = models.CharField(max_length=150,null=True)
    middleName = models.CharField(max_length=100,null=True)    
    lastName = models.CharField(max_length=100,null=True)
    email = models.CharField(max_length=30,null=True)
    phoneNo = models.CharField(max_length=12, default='',null=True)
    address = models.CharField(max_length=500, default='',null=True) 
    exprience = models.CharField(max_length=50, default='',null=True)        
    DOB = models.DateField(null=True, blank=True)   
    gender = models.CharField(max_length=10, default='',null=True)
    qualification = models.CharField(max_length=50,default='',null=True)   
    
     

    def __str__(self):
        return self.firstName
                
    objects = models.Manager()

let's migrate model
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
 

forms.py

 
from django import forms

from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper
from crispy_forms.layout import Layout, Div, Submit, Row, Column, Field

from .models import  tbl_Employee

class EmployeeRegistration(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = tbl_Employee
        fields =[ 'Empcode','firstName','middleName','lastName','email','phoneNo' ,'address','exprience',
                  'DOB','gender','qualification'
        ] 

Then let’s write a code in views.py to create a function to Export data from the database into Excel.

Views.py

from .models import tbl_Employee
import datetime as dt
import pandas as pd
import os
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage

import csv
 
def export_users_csv(request):
   
    
    if request.method == 'POST':
        response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv')
        response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="EmployeeData.csv"'         
        writer = csv.writer(response)
        writer.writerow(['Employee Detail'])       
                
        
        writer.writerow(['Employee Code','Employee Name','Relation Name','Last Name','gender','DOB','e-mail','Contact No' ,'Address' ,'exprience','Qualification'])

        users = tbl_Employee.objects.all().values_list('Empcode','firstName' , 'middleName' , 'lastName','gender','DOB','email','phoneNo' ,'address','exprience','qualification')
        
        for user in users:
            writer.writerow(user)
        return response

    return render(request, 'exportexcel.html')

 then add the path to  the urls file

urls.py

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("",views.base,name="base"),
    path("user_login/",views.user_login,name="user_login"),

 

    path('export_users_csv/', views.export_users_csv,name="export_users_csv"),  
     
    
]

Create a template folder in the root directory or app directory and a create html file named exportexcel.html

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-MCw98/SFnGE8fJT3GXwEOngsV7Zt27NXFoaoApmYm81iuXoPkFOJwJ8ERdknLPMO" crossorigin="anonymous"> 
{% block content %}
<div class="shadow-lg continer">
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    {% csrf_token %}

    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-6 col-xs-12">
          <div class="x_panel">
            <div class="x_title">
              <h2>Data Export</h2>
           
              <div class="clearfix"></div>
            </div>
            <div class="x_content">
<div class="row">
              <div class="col-md-8 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 form-group">
                <label class="control-label col-md-3 col-sm-3 col-xs-6" for="name">Company<span class="required">*</span>
                </label>
               
              </div>
            </div>
              <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success" >Export</button>                            
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
  </form>
  </div>
   
{% endblock %}

Then execute command 
Python manage.py runserver 

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