# Daphne

HTTP, HTTP/2 and WebSocket protocol server for ASGI applications, developed to power Django Channels.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/daphne/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/django/daphne
- docs: https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Django Software Foundation
- maintainerType: foundation
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: python
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.9
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: pip

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-3-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-07-21

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2688
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 70
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 5881
- dependentPackages: 37

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/django/daphne (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://github.com/django/daphne/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/django/daphne/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://github.com/django/daphne (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/django/daphne (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://github.com/django/daphne/blob/4.2.3/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-28)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/django/daphne/blob/4.2.3/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://github.com/django/daphne (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/django/daphne (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://api.github.com/repos/django/daphne (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/daphne/json (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/django/daphne/blob/main/CHANGELOG.txt (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/django/daphne/blob/main/CHANGELOG.txt (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/django/daphne (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/django/daphne/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/daphne (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/daphne (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Daphne is an HTTP, HTTP/2 and WebSocket server for ASGI applications, written in Python and developed by the Django project to power Django Channels. It is started as a command that points at an ASGI application and listens on localhost port 8000 by default. It can listen on a UNIX socket behind a reverse proxy or run inside a process manager. The Channels documentation installs it as the channels[daphne] extra of the Channels package.

## Worth knowing

HTTP/2 is served natively only when Daphne runs with TLS, set up through Twisted endpoint strings. A reverse proxy in front of it has to pass the HTTP/2 connection through for the protocol to reach the browser.

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