---
id: collectfast
version: "2.2.0"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# Collectfast — A Faster Collectstatic

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 370.9K/mo

## 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?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Collectfast accelerates Django's collectstatic command by using cached checksums to avoid redundant uploads and enabling parallel file transfers to cloud storage backends.

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

pip install collectfast
uv add collectfast
poetry add collectfast

## Installing Collectfast

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.

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 collectstatic

Requires Django and django-storages to be installed and configured with a supported backend (S3Boto3Storage, GoogleCloudStorage, or FileSystemStorage)

Verify 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_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 370.9K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

django collectstatic optimization, parallel static file upload, django s3 faster deployment, cached checksum file sync, django storage performance, batch static files upload, django gcloud storage speed, django-deployment, s3-optimization, static-files

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