# Render Engine

Python static site generator built from pages, collections and a site object, rendered with Jinja2 templates.


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

## Record

### Links

- home: https://render-engine.org/
- repository: https://github.com/render-engine/render-engine
- docs: https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- discord: https://discord.gg/2xMQ4j4d8m

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Render Engine community
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2023
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

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

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: jinja2
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: pip install render-engine

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-10

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 64
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 34
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: 1788
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 6
- dependentPackages: 11

### Sources

- urls: https://render-engine.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/render-engine/render-engine (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://render-engine.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://render-engine.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/render-engine/render-engine (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://pypi.org/pypi/render-engine/json (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (read 2026-10-23)
- templating: https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/templates/ (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://render-engine.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://render-engine.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- contentStore: https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content_manager/ (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/render-engine/render-engine (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://api.github.com/repos/render-engine/render-engine (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/render-engine/render-engine/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/render-engine/render-engine/releases/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/render-engine/render-engine (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/render-engine/render-engine/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/render-engine (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/render-engine (read 2026-10-25)
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/render-engine (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Render Engine is a static site generator written in Python, built from pages, collections and a site object. The [documentation](https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) states that it uses the Jinja2 templating engine, and that content is stored in the file system by default, one file per piece of content. The [site object](https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/site/) takes an output path where rendered content is written.

It is installed from PyPI with pip. The project is open source, the community is invited to contribute, and it has a Discord server linked from its README.

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