Django get list of models in application

From Django 1.7 on, you can use this code, for example in your admin.py to register all models:

from django.apps import apps
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.admin.sites import AlreadyRegistered

app_models = apps.get_app_config('my_app').get_models()
for model in app_models:
    try:
        admin.site.register(model)
    except AlreadyRegistered:
        pass

UPDATE

for newer versions of Django check Sjoerd answer below

Original answer from 2012: This is the best way to accomplish what you want to do:

from django.db.models import get_app, get_models

app = get_app('my_application_name')
for model in get_models(app):
    # do something with the model

In this example, model is the actual model, so you can do plenty of things with it:

for model in get_models(app):
    new_object = model() # Create an instance of that model
    model.objects.filter(...) # Query the objects of that model
    model._meta.db_table # Get the name of the model in the database
    model._meta.verbose_name # Get a verbose name of the model
    # ...

Best answer I found to get all models from an app:

from django.apps import apps
apps.all_models['<app_name>']  #returns dict with all models you defined

Taking off from @pedrotorres solution with some prudent inputs from @GiampaoloFerradini, this is what I am using finally:

from django.apps import apps

app_models = [model.__name__ for model in apps.get_models()] # Returns a "list" of all models created

Django get list of models in application

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