# Django Ninja

Web framework for building APIs with Django and Python type hints, with OpenAPI documentation generated from the code.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/django-ninja/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-26
Listed since: 2026-10-26

## Record

### Links

- home: https://django-ninja.dev
- repository: https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja
- docs: https://django-ninja.dev
- x: https://twitter.com/django_ninja
- discord: https://discord.gg/dgE4SNUDTB

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Vitaliy Kucheryaviy
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2019
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: python
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.7
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: pip install django-ninja

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-19

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 9220
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 173
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-ninja/json (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/vitalik/django-ninja (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/vitalik/django-ninja (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-ninja/json (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-ninja/json (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vitalik/django-ninja/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/vitalik/django-ninja (read 2026-10-26)
- runtime: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-ninja/json (read 2026-10-26)
- runtimeMin: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-ninja/json (read 2026-10-26)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- headlessApi: https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vitalik/django-ninja/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/vitalik/django-ninja (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/vitalik/django-ninja/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

Django Ninja is a web framework for building APIs with Django and Python type hints. It builds REST-style APIs, and is distributed on PyPI and maintained by the copyright holder named in its license file.

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