django-absurd

Run background tasks and durable workflows in Django on Postgres. Plugs Absurd, a Postgres-native workflow engine, into Django's Tasks framework, reusing the database connection your project already has.

Beta. The API is settling ahead of 1.0; behavior may still change.

Install

uv add django-absurd --prerelease allow    # or: pip install --pre django-absurd

Only pre-releases are published before 1.0, hence the flags. Needs Python 3.12+, Django 6.0+, and PostgreSQL on the psycopg (v3) driver — Absurd reuses Django's connection, so psycopg2 won't work.

Quickstart

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "django_absurd",
]

TASKS = {
    "default": {
        "BACKEND": "django_absurd.backends.AbsurdBackend",
    },
}

python manage.py migrate    # installs the Absurd schema, provisions declared queues

from django.tasks import task


@task
def add(a: int, b: int) -> int:
    return a + b


result = add.enqueue(2, 3)   # returns a TaskResult; a worker runs it

python manage.py absurd_worker

That's the whole loop. The "default" queue is declared for you, so migrate provisions it without any QUEUES setting of your own.

Documentation

Documentation — tasks, workflows, cron jobs, workers, cleanup, monitoring, testing, and configuration.
Runnable examples — three dockerized nanodjango demos (web enqueue+result, beat, and pg_cron), each with one docker compose up.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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