# django-distill

Static site generator and publisher for Django that renders URLs to HTML files.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/django-distill/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill
- docs: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: meeb
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.10
- basedOn: django

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: urls only

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, local
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: pip install

### License

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

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-30

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 519
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 21
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: 8670
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 39
- dependentPackages: 2

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/meeb/django-distill (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meeb/django-distill/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/meeb/django-distill (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- basedOn: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-distill/json (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-distill/json (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- i18n: https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/meeb/django-distill (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meeb/django-distill/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-distill/json (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meeb/django-distill/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-distill/json (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/meeb/django-distill/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/meeb/django-distill/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/meeb/django-distill (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/meeb/django-distill/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/django-distill (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/django-distill (read 2026-10-25)
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/django-distill (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

django-distill is a static site generator and publisher for Django. It renders the URLs of an existing Django site into HTML files and writes them to a local directory, or uploads them to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage or Azure Blob Storage. The process can run in CI/CD to deploy a site on each commit. It is installed with pip.

The project has no website of its own, so the [README](https://github.com/meeb/django-distill/blob/master/README.md) in the repository is its documentation.

## Worth knowing

Internationalization covers URLs only; the tool does not translate page content. The README describes the current release line as a ground-up rebuild that is not guaranteed to be compatible with older releases.

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