# TurboGears

Python web framework for services, JSON APIs and database-backed web apps.


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

## Record

### Links

- home: https://turbogears.org/
- repository: https://github.com/TurboGears/tg2
- docs: https://turbogears.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- plugins: https://turbogears.org/cogbin.html
- x: https://x.com/turbogearsorg
- forum: https://groups.google.com/g/turbogears

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Kevin Dangoor, Alessandro Molina and contributors
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2007
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: python
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.10
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: mongodb, sqlite
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: kajiki, jinja2, genshi, mako
- i18n: gettext-based translation and localization, driven by gearbox i18n

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: pip install TurboGears2

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT-style, MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-12

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 812
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 28
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://turbogears.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/TurboGears/tg2 (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://turbogears.org/documentation.html (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://turbogears.org/cogbin.html (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://github.com/TurboGears/tg2/blob/development/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/TurboGears/tg2 (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://turbogears.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- runtime: https://turbogears.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- runtimeMin: https://turbogears.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://turbogears.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- templating: https://turbogears.org/features.html (read 2026-10-26)
- databases: https://turbogears.org/features.html (read 2026-10-26)
- databases: https://turbogears.readthedocs.io/en/latest/turbogears/minimal/index.html (read 2026-10-26)
- headlessApi: https://turbogears.org/features.html (read 2026-10-26)
- i18n: https://turbogears.org/features.html (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://github.com/TurboGears/tg2/blob/development/README.rst (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://github.com/TurboGears/tg2/blob/development/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-26)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/TurboGears/tg2/blob/development/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/TurboGears/json (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/TurboGears/tg2/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/TurboGears/tg2/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/TurboGears/tg2 (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/TurboGears/tg2/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-26)
- runsAs: https://turbogears.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook/deploy/index.html (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

TurboGears is a Python web framework that runs from a single file and can grow into a generated full-stack project with templates, database models and authentication. Its [features page](https://turbogears.org/features.html) lists Kajiki, Jinja2, Genshi and Mako as template engines, SQL databases through SQLAlchemy and MongoDB through Ming. Authentication uses pluggable identity backends through repoze.who, and the page names LDAP and OAuth among them.

For production, the [deployment guide](https://turbogears.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook/deploy/index.html) describes a WSGI server behind a reverse proxy, or Apache with mod_wsgi.

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