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Top 23 Python Celery Projects
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cookiecutter-django
Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.
Project mention: Cookiecutter Django: framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-13 -
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Project mention: flower VS dj-celery-panel - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/flower | 2026-02-27
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Project mention: Celery + Redis at Scale: Designing a Reliable and Efficient Task Queue in Production | dev.to | 2026-04-26
One more practical point from my experience: sometimes the problem is not in your code or even in your configuration, but in Celery itself or in lower-level libraries such as Kombu (for example https://github.com/celery/kombu/issues/2258).
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full-stack-ai-agent-template
Full-stack AI app generator — FastAPI + Next.js with AI Agents, RAG, streaming, auth, and 20+ integrations out of the box.
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Another one is how much time it takes to maintain vs how much interest it has. This is different than burnout.
I created and maintain example Docker Compose starter projects for Flask[0], Rails[1], Django[2] and Node[3]. I've had these going for 6-7 years and I maintain them at least once a week to keep everything up to date.
I used to also support Phoenix but I stopped after ~5 years because it was the least popular project but also took up more time to upgrade than all of the other example projects combined because Live View has changed in drastic ways so many times.
Plus it became no longer enjoyable to work on it since I stopped using Phoenix in my day to day as well. That combined with it being the least popular example app between the 5 projects.
I put together a 6 month plan to archive the repo in https://github.com/nickjj/docker-phoenix-example/issues/16, received zero feedback and then archived it at the start of 2026.
[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example
[1]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-rails-example
[2]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-django-example
[3]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-node-example
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redbeat
RedBeat is a Celery Beat Scheduler that stores the scheduled tasks and runtime metadata in Redis.
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8mb.local
a free local self hosted video compressor webui designed for performance and ease of use. inspired by 8mb.video
I also look for a sophisticated self hosted, open source transcoding solution as a web app, but in the mean time, the complete opposite: no bells and whistles, no config, no control except size: https://github.com/JMS1717/8mb.local
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Another one is how much time it takes to maintain vs how much interest it has. This is different than burnout.
I created and maintain example Docker Compose starter projects for Flask[0], Rails[1], Django[2] and Node[3]. I've had these going for 6-7 years and I maintain them at least once a week to keep everything up to date.
I used to also support Phoenix but I stopped after ~5 years because it was the least popular project but also took up more time to upgrade than all of the other example projects combined because Live View has changed in drastic ways so many times.
Plus it became no longer enjoyable to work on it since I stopped using Phoenix in my day to day as well. That combined with it being the least popular example app between the 5 projects.
I put together a 6 month plan to archive the repo in https://github.com/nickjj/docker-phoenix-example/issues/16, received zero feedback and then archived it at the start of 2026.
[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example
[1]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-rails-example
[2]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-django-example
[3]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-node-example
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To link log messages with requests we need a correlation ID. I highly recommend using the asgi-correlation-id package for this purpose.
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celery-progress
Drop in, configurable, dependency-free progress bars for your Django/Celery applications.
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django-guid
Inject an ID into every log message from a Django request. ASGI compatible, integrates with Sentry, and works with Celery
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robs_awesome_python_template
Production-ready Python template: Choose from FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery, Docker, CI/CD and more. Flexibility that scales from libraries to full applications.
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full-stack-fastapi-postgresql
Full stack, modern web application generator. Using FastAPI, PostgreSQL as database, Nuxt3, Docker, automatic HTTPS and more. (by whythawk)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Celery projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | cookiecutter-django | 13,605 |
| 2 | flower | 7,243 |
| 3 | kombu | 3,138 |
| 4 | django-react-boilerplate | 2,271 |
| 5 | django-celery-beat | 1,951 |
| 6 | full-stack-ai-agent-template | 1,878 |
| 7 | django-celery | 1,553 |
| 8 | docker-django-example | 1,528 |
| 9 | jasmin | 1,199 |
| 10 | redbeat | 1,051 |
| 11 | 8mb.local | 910 |
| 12 | django-celery-results | 785 |
| 13 | docker-flask-example | 764 |
| 14 | playlistor | 674 |
| 15 | asgi-correlation-id | 645 |
| 16 | wakaq | 594 |
| 17 | celery-exporter | 559 |
| 18 | celery-progress | 496 |
| 19 | django-guid | 485 |
| 20 | banking-system | 349 |
| 21 | pdbr | 349 |
| 22 | robs_awesome_python_template | 310 |
| 23 | full-stack-fastapi-postgresql | 260 |
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