Package profile
rq
- Summary: RQ is a simple, lightweight, library for creating background jobs, and processing them.
- Author: Selwin Ong <selwin.ong@gmail.com>, Vincent Driessen <vincent@3rdcloud.com>
- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Homepage: https://python-rq.org/
- Documentation: https://python-rq.org/docs/
- Source: https://github.com/rq/rq
- Number of releases: 99
- First release: 0.1.0 on 2013-12-16
- Latest release: 3.0.0 on 2026-10-28
- Latest release size: 125.0 KB (pure Python wheel)
Dependencies
Rq has 3 dependencies, 0 of which optional.Dependent packages
| Package | Optional | Group |
|---|---|---|
| django-rq | false | |
| rq-scheduler | false | |
| litellm | true | proxy |
| sentry-sdk | true | rq |
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