CKAN
Make open data websites.
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Still maintained? Yes: 230 commits in the last 90 days, latest release ckan-2.12.1 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): Wayback Machine alternatives.
At a glance
CKAN quick facts
- Health score
- 85/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,147
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- ckan-2.12.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: ".. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg?style=flat :target: https://docs.ckan.org :alt: Documentation .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/support-StackOverflow-yellowgreen.svg?style=flat :target: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ckan :alt: Support on StackOverflow."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
CKAN scores 85/100, #10 of 19 in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): 230 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (ckan-2.12.1, 2 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,147 stars add 14.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
230 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
ckan-2.12.1 released 2 days ago
- Stars 14.8 / 20
5.1k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 230
- Last 90 days
- 938
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 19 tools in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) by health , between Wallabag (#9) and Eonvelope (#11) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | ckan-2.12.1 · 2 days ago |
| Stars | 5,147 |
| Open issues | 665 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | ckan/ckan ↗ |
CKAN vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with CKAN (Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| ArchiveBox | 98 | 29k | MIT | yesterday |
| Tube Archivist | 96 | 8.6k | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| Papra | 95 | 5.6k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Bichon | 93 | 2.1k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| CKAN (this tool) | 85 | 5.1k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
CKAN: common questions
Is CKAN still maintained?
CKAN had 230 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, ckan-2.12.1, is from 2 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.