Save last visited pages with title and last access time in Django templates. Gist provides two methods: "save_visited" and "load_visited"

last_visited.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django import template
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
from django.utils import timezone
from django.core.cache import cache
# import datetime
# from django.conf import settings
# from django.utils.formats import sanitize_separators
# from django.utils.html import conditional_escape as esc

register = template.Library()

def ip(request):
    x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')
    if x_forwarded_for:
        ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[-1].strip()
    else:
        ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')
    return ip

def get_user_identification(request):
    """
    get the identification for user
    if user is an anon, use session if we can, otherwise use pair of ip and user agent
    if user is authenticated, make the visited pages global for any session
    """

    if request.user.is_authenticated():
        identify_by = request.user.id
    else:
        if hasattr(request, 'session') and request.session.session_key:
            identify_by = request.session.session_key
        else:
            user_agent = unicode(request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', '')[:255], errors='ignore')
            identify_by = '%s:%s' % (ip(request), user_agent)

    return identify_by

@register.simple_tag(takes_context=True, name='save_visited')
def save_visited(context, title, **kwargs):
    request = context['request']

    # store last five pages
    identify_by = get_user_identification(request)
    visited_pages = cache.get('visited_pages_%s' % identify_by, [])[:4]

    # context.use_tz - why None if set True in settings?
    # may be we should save datetime.now() and convert it in getter?
    now = timezone.now()

    bundle = force_unicode(title), request.get_full_path()[:255], now
    visited_pages.insert(0, bundle)

    cache.set('visited_pages_%s' % identify_by, visited_pages, 60*60*24)
    return title


@register.simple_tag(takes_context=True, name='load_visited')
def load_visited(context, variable, **kwargs):
    identify_by = get_user_identification(context['request'])
    context[variable] = cache.get('visited_pages_%s' % identify_by, [])
    return u''

Usage in a template:

{% block title %}{% save_visited _("Profile setup") %}{% endblock %}
...
{% load_visited 'visited' %}
{% for title, uri, dt in visited %}
    <a href="{{ uri }}">{{ title }} {% trans "at" %} {{ dt }}</a><br/>
{% endfor %}