Get daily counts of objects from Django

Question

I have a Django model with a created timestamp and I'd like to get the counts of objects created on each day. I was hoping to use the aggregation functionality in Django but I can't figure out how to solve my problem with it. Assuming that doesn't work I can always fall back to just getting all of the dates with values_list but I'd prefer to give the work to Django or the DB. How would you do it?

Answer 1

Use the count method:

YourModel.objects.filter(published_on=datetime.date(2011, 4, 1)).count()

Answer 2

Alex pointed to the right answer in the comment:

Count number of records by date in Django
Credit goes to ara818

Guidoism.objects.extra({'created':"date(created)"}).values('created').annotate(created_count=Count('id'))

from django.db.models import Count

Guidoism.objects \
    # get specific dates (not hours for example) and store in "created" 
    .extra({'created':"date(created)"})
    # get a values list of only "created" defined earlier
    .values('created')
    # annotate each day by Count of Guidoism objects
    .annotate(created_count=Count('id'))

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