Introducing pybgworker — A Lightweight Python Background Worker Without Redis or RabbitMQ

Question

I’ve been working on an open-source project called pybgworker, a lightweight background task worker for Python applications that works without Redis or RabbitMQ, using SQLite instead.

The goal was to make background job processing simple for projects where running extra infrastructure is unnecessary.

✅ Background task execution
✅ Retries & scheduling
✅ Task priorities
✅ Graceful worker shutdown
✅ Crash recovery
✅ Task cancellation
✅ Configurable timeouts
✅ Rate limiting per task
✅ Multiple worker support
✅ No external services required

Example usage:

from pybgworker import task

@task(name="tasks.hello")
def hello(name):
    print("Hello", name)

hello.delay("World")

Run worker:

pybgworker run --app tasks

That’s it — background jobs running.

The package has already crossed ~600 downloads in just 5 days, which was really encouraging, and I’m continuing to improve documentation and features.

I’d love feedback, suggestions, and contributions from the community.

GitHub: Github

PyPI: Pypi