How to Show Last Login Date to User in Django

• Last modified: 25 December 2020
• Category: django tutorial

The last Login is one of the most properties that warn the user if his account has cracked.
Django provides us a last_login User filed that saves the last login time and date for each user.

In this tutorial, we're going to write a simple example that returns the last login DateTime of the user, But first, I just wanted to let you know how to use last_login filed.

Understand how to use the last_login field

Let's enter to Django shell:

python3 manage.py shell 

importing Django User Model:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User

print last_login of the user:

>>> user_last_login = User.objects.get(username='saidox').last_login

output:

datetime.datetime(2020, 12, 9, 0, 35, 56, 136099, tzinfo=<UTC>)

To make output readable, we need to use the strftime() method.

>>> user_last_login.strftime('%y-%m-%d %a %H:%M:%S')

output:

'20-12-09 Wed 00:35:56'
 

Print just the date:

>>> user_last_login.date().strftime('%y-%m-%d)

'20-12-09 Wed'

Example of showing last_login of a user

After understanding how to use the last_login filed, let's now write an example that returns the Username and Last Login to the user.

#views.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

def last_login(request):
    if request.user.is_authenticated:
        user = User.objects.get(username=request.user)
        last_login = user.last_login.strftime('%y-%m-%d %a %H:%M:%S')
        return HttpResponse(
            f"""
            <h2>User: {request.user}</h2>
            <br>
            <h2>Last Login: {last_login}</h2>
            """
            )

    else:
        return HttpResponse("<h1>Please log in</h1>")

    return HttpResponse("<h1>Page Not Found</h1>", status=404)    

request.user: username

#urls.py

path("last-login", last_login),  

before login:

Now, let's log in and see what happens.

after login: