(It is my first time posting, sorry if I'm doing mistakes)

Hello, I am following the Django tutorial for my first app and I'm trying to make an app that display 5 random gifs (from Reddit Rest API and subreddit /r/gifs). Then I would like to be able to choose one of them and add them to my database.

I have a solution that works like that :

models.py :

class Favorite_GIF(models.Model):
    ## URL gfycat
    url = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    ## Preference score
    score = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    def __str__(self):
        return self.url

I am passing a list of Favorite_GIF instances from my views.py to my template with the help of the context. I had to make a list of Favorite_GIF instances in order to capture all the information about the gifs because they are not saved in the database yet.

random_GIF.html :

<p>Here are displayed 5 random GIF</p>

{% if random_GIF_list %}
    <ul>
    <form action="{% url 'app_1:add_favorite_GIF' %}" method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% for random_GIF in random_GIF_list %}
        <img src={{ random_GIF.url }} align="left"> 
        <input type="radio" name="random_GIF_URL" id="random_GIF_URL{{ forloop.counter }}" value={{ random_GIF.url }}/>
        <input type="hidden" name="random_GIF_Score" value="{{ random_GIF.score }}">
        <input type="submit" value="Add to favorites" />
        <br clear="all" />
    {% endfor %}
</form>
    </ul>
{% else %}
    <p>No random GIF are available.</p>
{% endif %}

My problem here is that I am unable to post the instance of {{ random_GIF }} (which is the same as {{ random_GIF .url
}} because of the

def __str__(self):
    return self.url

?)

An so I had to deconstruct my instances to pass each variable and then reconstruct my instances in my add_favorite_GIF view, which I feel is very bad coding.

Do you have any suggestions to my problem ? Thank you