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Django REST framework

Toolkit for building Web APIs on Django, with serialization, views, authentication and permissions.

www.django-rest-framework.orgrepositorydocs

Django REST framework is a toolkit for building Web APIs, added to a Django project as an app: the README tells users to add “rest_framework” to the INSTALLED_APPS setting. Its community discussion runs through a Google Group.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Encode OSS Ltd4
Maintained by
Company
First release
20113

Rendering and deploy

Install with
pip install djangorestframework1

Releases

Current major version
36
Last release
2026-10-066

Adoption

GitHub stars
30,2172
Contributors
3867

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-26: name, Categories, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Install with
    github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/blob/master/README.md
  2. 2026-10-26: links, Written in, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/encode/django-rest-framework
  3. 2026-10-26: links, First release, Built on
    pypi.org/pypi/djangorestframework/json
  4. 2026-10-26: Maintainer, License
    github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/blob/master/LICENSE.md
  5. 2026-10-26: Content API
    www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/rest-hypermedia-hateoas/
  6. 2026-10-26: Current major version, Last release
    github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/releases
  7. 2026-10-26: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/encode/django-rest-framework/contributors?per_page=1

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