Collectfast
A Faster Collectstatic
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
No. While Collectfast solves a real problem and has low install friction, the package is abandoned since 2022-04-21 with no maintenance. Django, django-storages, and cloud storage APIs have evolved significantly since then, creating a high risk of incompatibility or silent failures. For active projects, investigate current alternatives or file-upload optimization in modern django-storages versions before committing to this package.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Django and django-storages to be installed and configured with a supported backend (S3Boto3Storage, GoogleCloudStorage, or FileSystemStorage)
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel.
- However, the package is abandoned as of 2022-04-21 with no recent maintenance, so it may not be compatible with current Django or storage backend versions.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT License (permissive) — MIT License permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, making it safe to adopt from a licensing standpoint.
last release 2020-06-05 (2261 days) · last repo commit 2022-04-21 · 414 stars · archived
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 370,943 downloads/mo, #7,172 on PyPI
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pip install Collectfast
# In Django settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'collectfast',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
)
STATICFILES_STORAGE = "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage"
COLLECTFAST_STRATEGY = "collectfast.strategies.boto3.Boto3Strategy"
# Then run:
python manage.py collectstatic- Compatibility with Django versions released after 2020-06-05
- Whether parallel uploads work reliably with modern Python concurrent.futures
- Current status of S3Boto3Storage and GoogleCloudStorage APIs relative to expectations
What it is and what it does
Collectfast is a drop-in replacement for Django's built-in collectstatic command that speeds up the process of gathering and uploading static files to remote storage. It works by caching file checksums to avoid re-uploading unchanged files, and optionally parallelizing uploads across multiple threads. The package integrates with django-storages to support S3, Google Cloud Storage, and local filesystem backends.
You install it, add it to INSTALLED_APPS before django.contrib.staticfiles, configure a storage backend and strategy, then run collectstatic as normal. Collectfast intercepts the command and applies its optimizations transparently. It requires Django and django-storages as runtime dependencies, plus typing-extensions for type hints.
Use it for
- Speed up CI/CD deployment pipelines that repeatedly run collectstatic with large static file sets
- Reduce S3 API calls and transfer time when deploying Django projects with hundreds of static files
- Enable parallel uploads to Google Cloud Storage to cut deployment time on projects with many assets
- Cache file metadata locally to avoid redundant remote storage lookups during frequent deployments
Worth the install?
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No.
While Collectfast solves a real problem and has low install friction, the package is abandoned since 2022-04-21 with no maintenance. Django, django-storages, and cloud storage APIs have evolved significantly since then, creating a high risk of incompatibility or silent failures. For active projects, investigate current alternatives or file-upload optimization in modern django-storages versions before committing to this package.
Install
collectfast on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. However, the package is abandoned as of 2022-04-21 with no recent maintenance, so it may not be compatible with current Django or storage backend versions.
Requires Django and django-storages to be installed and configured with a supported backend (S3Boto3Storage, GoogleCloudStorage, or FileSystemStorage)
License in practice
MIT License permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, making it safe to adopt from a licensing standpoint.
Quickstart
pip install Collectfast
# In Django settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'collectfast',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
)
STATICFILES_STORAGE = "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage"
COLLECTFAST_STRATEGY = "collectfast.strategies.boto3.Boto3Strategy"
# Then run:
python manage.py collectstaticVerify before relying
- Compatibility with Django versions released after 2020-06-05
- Whether parallel uploads work reliably with modern Python concurrent.futures
- Current status of S3Boto3Storage and GoogleCloudStorage APIs relative to expectations
Package facts
| License | MIT License permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.6 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 3 packagesDjangodjango-storagestyping-extensions |
| Maintenance | Abandoned 2,261 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | repository archived |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 370,943 / month, #7,172 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Environment :: Web EnvironmentFramework :: DjangoIntended Audience :: DevelopersOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8 |
Evidence: Collectfast-2.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
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