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List Django REST Framework Endpoints and Nested URL Patterns

Django exposes a runtime URL resolver, while Django REST Framework routers generate patterns for registered viewsets. A useful inventory has to recurse through included URLconfs, preserve prefixes, and separate API endpoints from admin, static, and non-API views.

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Direct framework method

Start with the routes registered at runtime

Walk Django's root URL resolver recursively after settings and application initialization. DRF router patterns appear in that tree, but the resolver output still needs filtering and method-level context before it becomes a useful API inventory.

Django REST Framework route inventory · python
from django.urls import URLPattern, URLResolver, get_resolver

def list_url_patterns(
    patterns: list[URLPattern | URLResolver],
    prefix: str,
) -> list[str]:
    routes: list[str] = []
    for pattern in patterns:
        route = prefix + str(pattern.pattern)
        if isinstance(pattern, URLResolver):
            routes.extend(list_url_patterns(pattern.url_patterns, route))
        else:
            routes.append(route)
    return routes

for route in list_url_patterns(get_resolver().url_patterns, ""):
    print(route)

Where a route-listing snippet stops

  • Django settings and application imports must initialize successfully before the resolver is available.
  • The URL tree includes admin, static, health, and regular web views unless you classify them explicitly.
  • A URL pattern alone does not reliably expose every allowed HTTP method, serializer, permission, or authentication requirement.
  • Dynamically selected URLconfs and deployment-specific settings can produce different runtime inventories.

Use source as the second inventory

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