title: Can I disable a field in the Rest Framework API browsing view
body: <p>I am using Django Rest Framework to serialize a model in which I have a foreignkey.</p>
  
  <p><em>models.py</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>class Article(models.Model):
      author = models.ForeignKey(Author, related_name='articles')
      ... other fields...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em>serializers.py</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>class ArticleSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
      class Meta:
          model = Article
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to get rid of the 'HTML form' at the bottom of the browsable API view since I get a list with all my articles and retrieving them from the DB takes ages (I have some 100K articles, and each time the html form is displayed, my server does 100K queries).</p>
  
  <p>I have read the answer from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11898065/how-to-disable-admin-style-browsable-interface-of-django-rest-framework?answertab=votes#tab-top">How to disable admin-style browsable interface of django-rest-framework?</a> and I am currently displaying the view in JSON. However, I like the html view and would like to find a way to avoid the html form available at the bottom.</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to properly remove the field from the view (I need to use it), but just remove the database queries used to populate the form.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea ?</p>