Integrating Facebook Like & Share Plugin Using Django

20 June 2025

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Django is a Python-based web framework that allows you to quickly create efficient web applications. It is also called batteries included framework because Django provides built-in features for everything including Django Admin Interface, default database – SQLlite3, etc. In this article we will learn to integrate facebook comment plugin in django.

How to Integrate Facebook Like & Share Plugin in Django ?

Installation

pip install django

1) Create new project

django-admin startproject Test_prj

2) Navigate to Test_prj directory

cd Test_prj

3) Create new app

python manage.py startapp main

Folder Structure :

Then add the app name inside the INSTALLED_APPS (settings.py).

views.py

Python3

from django.shortcuts import render 
  
# Create your views here. 
def home(request): 
    return render(request,"main/index.html") 

Create new file urls.py inside the main directory

Python3

from django.urls import path 
from .views import *
  
urlpatterns = [ 
    path('',home,name="home") 
]

Add the main/urls.py inside the urls.py

Python3

from django.contrib import admin 
from django.urls import path,include 
  
urlpatterns = [ 
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls), 
    path('',include("main.urls")), 
] 

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button/

Go to this link to get code

Click on get code

Create new directory templates inside the main app inside that create main directory

index.html

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
<head> 
    <title>GFG</title> 
    <div id="fb-root"></div> 
    <script async defer crossorigin="anonymous" 
            src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v9.0" 
            nonce="8E6OZDVx"></script> 
</head> 
<body> 
    <h1>Welcome To GFG</h1> 
    <div class="fb-like" data-href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/8000" data-width=""
         data-layout="button_count" data-action="like" data-size="large" 
         data-share="true"></div> 
</body> 
</html>