🧩 User API Project (Django REST Framework)

A clean, modular, and secure Django REST API for user management, authentication, filtering, and search. This project was built using Django 5, Django REST Framework, and django-filter.

🚀 Features ✅ User Management

Register new users

Login with token authentication

Update profile

Delete account

🔐 Custom Permissions

Restrict access based on authenticated user

Prevent users from editing others’ data

🔎 Filtering & Search (Day 25)

Search users by username, email

Filter by is_active, date_joined, etc.

Built with django-filter

📦 API Endpoints Method Endpoint Description POST /api/register/ Create a new user POST /api/login/ Obtain auth token GET /api/users/ List all users (with search & filter) GET /api/users// Retrieve a user PUT /api/users// Update DELETE /api/users// Delete 🛠️ Technologies Used

Python 3.13

Django 5.2

Django REST Framework

Django Filter

SQLite3 (default DB)

📁 Project Structure user_api_project/ │── accounts/ │ ├── models.py │ ├── serializers.py │ ├── views.py │ ├── urls.py │ ├── permissions.py │ ├── filters.py │── user_api_project/ │ ├── settings.py │ ├── urls.py │── manage.py

⚙️ Installation & Setup 1️⃣ Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/banumariwan/user_api_project.git cd user_api_project

2️⃣ Create virtual environment python -m venv .venv

3️⃣ Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt

4️⃣ Run migrations python manage.py migrate

5️⃣ Start the server python manage.py runserver

🧪 Testing the API

You can test endpoints using:

Postman

cURL

Thunder Client

DRF’s browsable API (default)

🔍 Search & Filter Examples Search by username: /api/users/?search=banu

Filter by active users: /api/users/?is_active=True

Combine: /api/users/?search=mar&is_active=True

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.