How to get the list of the authenticated users?

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Going along with rz’s answer, you could query the Session model for non-expired sessions, then turn the session data into users. Once you’ve got that you could turn it into a template tag which could render the list on any given page.

(This is all untested, but hopefully will be close to working).

Fetch all the logged in users…

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
from django.utils import timezone

def get_all_logged_in_users():
    # Query all non-expired sessions
    # use timezone.now() instead of datetime.now() in latest versions of Django
    sessions = Session.objects.filter(expire_date__gte=timezone.now())
    uid_list = []

    # Build a list of user ids from that query
    for session in sessions:
        data = session.get_decoded()
        uid_list.append(data.get('_auth_user_id', None))

    # Query all logged in users based on id list
    return User.objects.filter(id__in=uid_list)

Using this, you can make a simple inclusion template tag…

from django import template
from wherever import get_all_logged_in_users
register = template.Library()

@register.inclusion_tag('templatetags/logged_in_user_list.html')
def render_logged_in_user_list():
    return { 'users': get_all_logged_in_users() }

logged_in_user_list.html

{% if users %}
<ul class="user-list">
    {% for user in users %}
    <li>{{ user }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}

Then in your main page you can simply use it where you like…

{% load your_library_name %}
{% render_logged_in_user_list %}

EDIT

For those talking about the 2-week persistent issue, I’m assuming that anyone wanting to have an “active users” type of listing will be making use of the SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE setting, though I recognize this isn’t always the case.

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