Quick Start

Silk is installed like any other Django app.

First install via pip:

pip install django-silk

Add the following to your settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'silk.middleware.SilkyMiddleware',
    ...
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'silk'
)

Add the following to your urls.py:

urlpatterns += patterns('', url(r'^silk', include('silk.urls', namespace='silk')))

Run syncdb to create Silk’s database tables:

python manage.py syncdb

And voila! Silk will begin intercepting requests and queries which you can inspect by visiting /silk/

Other Installation Options

You can download a release from github and then install using pip:

pip install django-silk-<version>.tar.gz

You can also install directly from the github repo but please note that this version is not guaranteed to be working:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/mtford90/silk.git#egg=silk