Django get list of models in application

From Django 1.7 on, you can use this code, for example in your admin.py to register all models:

from django.apps import appsfrom django.contrib import adminfrom django.contrib.admin.sites import AlreadyRegisteredapp_models = apps.get_app_config('my_app').get_models()for model in app_models:    try:        admin.site.register(model)    except AlreadyRegistered:        pass

UPDATE

for newer versions of Django check Sjoerd answer below

Original answer from 2012:This is the best way to accomplish what you want to do:

from django.db.models import get_app, get_modelsapp = get_app('my_application_name')for model in get_models(app):    # do something with the model

In this example, model is the actual model, so you can do plenty of things with it:

for model in get_models(app):    new_object = model() # Create an instance of that model    model.objects.filter(...) # Query the objects of that model    model._meta.db_table # Get the name of the model in the database    model._meta.verbose_name # Get a verbose name of the model    # ...

Best answer I found to get all models from an app:

from django.apps import appsapps.all_models['<app_name>']  #returns dict with all models you defined