# Elsa

Helper module that freezes a Flask app built with Frozen-Flask into static HTML and deploys it to GitHub Pages.

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

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa
- docs: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/QUICKSTART.rst

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Miro Hrončok
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2017
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

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

### Rendering and deploy

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

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2020-08-31

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 30
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 5
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: 1213
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 25
- dependentPackages: 1

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/pyvec/elsa (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/QUICKSTART.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/pyvec/elsa (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/QUICKSTART.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/QUICKSTART.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/QUICKSTART.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/elsa/json (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://pypi.org/pypi/elsa/json (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://pypi.org/pypi/elsa/json (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/pyvec/elsa (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/pyvec/elsa/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/elsa (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/elsa (read 2026-10-25)
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/elsa (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Elsa is a helper module for Flask websites that are frozen with Frozen-Flask. A script passes the Flask app to `elsa.cli()` and gains `serve` to preview the site, `freeze` to write an HTML snapshot, and `deploy` to publish the frozen site to GitHub pages. The [quickstart](https://github.com/pyvec/elsa/blob/master/QUICKSTART.rst) sets this up with Travis CI, which freezes and deploys after each push.

## Worth knowing

The README says the Travis CI deployment force-pushes the gh-pages branch in a single commit, which rewrites that branch's history. It also says a URL without a trailing slash makes GitHub Pages serve the page with the wrong content type, so Elsa treats that as an error and the README asks for trailing slashes.

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