# Haystack

Django app that puts one search API in front of pluggable backends such as Solr, Elasticsearch, Whoosh and Xapian.


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

## Record

### Links

- home: https://haystacksearch.org/
- repository: https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack
- docs: https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/master/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Daniel Lindsley
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2009
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: search
- hosting: python
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.9
- basedOn: django

### Content

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

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: pip

### License

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

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-06-04

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 3723
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 191
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 4650
- dependentPackages: 30

### Sources

- urls: https://haystacksearch.org/ (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/master/ (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-haystack/json (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack/blob/v3.4.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack/blob/v3.4.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack/blob/v3.4.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-28)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack/blob/v3.4.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/master/ (read 2026-10-28)
- basedOn: https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack/blob/v3.4.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/master/tutorial.html (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/django-haystack/django-haystack/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/django-haystack/django-haystack/releases/latest (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/django-haystack/django-haystack (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/django-haystack/django-haystack/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/django-haystack (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/django-haystack (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Haystack is a search app for Django. It describes itself as pluggable search for Django and gives a project one search API over several engines. The project's documentation describes plugging different search backends into that API; the backends it names are Solr, Elasticsearch, Whoosh and Xapian.

## Worth knowing

The name is shared with deepset's Haystack LLM framework, which is a different project. The Solr and Elasticsearch engines run as their own services that Haystack connects to.

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