Interesting, is there a way to peek for an existing record instead of calling get to see whether the record exists in the database? I'm thinking of making this snippet of code a bit more efficient
try: obj = Hackathon.objects.get(**each_dict) except Hackathon.DoesNotExist: obj = Hackathon(**each_dict) obj.save() On Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 10:31:46 AM UTC-4 J.T. wrote: > Take a look at update_or_create() > > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/models/querysets/#update-or-create > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 9:27 AM Adib Neymar Jr. <akm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> What is a good way to compare new data with old data which is updated >> everyday with Django ORM? Basically I have a scraper which fetches >> hackathons everyday (basically just a celery task) and I want the newest to >> be unioned it with my master database which has the latest fetched >> hackathons from yesterday. I don't want to destroy my master database and >> then just upload everything that I just fetched since that seems wasteful. >> This is my strategy in approaching my problem but I am open to hear other >> options as well. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Adib >> >> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAN%3Doy7JkqHEtaizgKtHniofSS7T%2BybqVer0mJc1uRPRLupUSdQ%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAN%3Doy7JkqHEtaizgKtHniofSS7T%2BybqVer0mJc1uRPRLupUSdQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/07e19d5a-579a-4ec6-91f0-4ccba9790d0fn%40googlegroups.com.
