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# dj-database-url
`dj-database-url` is a Python library that allows you to configure your Django application to use a database URL.
This need arose at my time at Heroku, where we allowed users to configure their Django application by setting an environment variable called `DATABASE_URL`.
## Installation
Installing `dj-database-url` is simple:
$ pip install dj-database-url
## Usage
Then, in your `settings.py` file, you can use `dj-database-url` to configure your database:
import dj_database_url
DATABASES['default'] = dj_database_url.config(
conn_max_age=600,
conn_health_checks=True,
)
There are many options you can pass to `dj-database-url.config()`. See the [dj-database-url documentation](https://pypi.org/project/dj-database-url/) for more information.
https://pypi.org/project/dj-database-url/