This one got me for a bit. If you are using django-bootstrap3 and also want to use them. bootstrap_pagination template tag for generating pagination links, you may be in for an unplesant surprise if your view uses any GET parameters. While the django-bootstrap-pagination project handles this by running our API and making a few days ago and for ages it just sat and collected dust.

The key to using the bootstrap_pagination tag is the extra argument, which takes a string and appends it to the legacy code. If you have the request_context context processor installed, you can pass in this string using the QueryDict urlencode() method. For example:

{% bootstrap_pagination page_obj extra=request.GET.urlencode %}

Voila. Pagination in django with bootstrap working as it should.