Django DetailView - how to use 'request' in get_context_data
Solution 1:
You have access to the request in self.request - the third paragraph here explains a little more.
EDIT: The text referred to, in case it changes:
The key part to making this work is that when class-based views are called, various useful things are stored on self; as well as the request (self.request) this includes the positional (self.args) and name-based (self.kwargs) arguments captured according to the URLconf.