Writing CKAN extensions¶

CKAN can be modified and extended using extensions. Some core extensions come packaged with CKAN. Core extensions don’t need to be installed before you can use them as they’re installed when you install CKAN, they can simply be enabled by following the setup instructions in each extension’s documentation (some core extensions are already enabled by default). For example, the datastore extension, multilingual extension, and stats extension are all core extensions, and the data viewer also uses core extensions to enable data previews for different file formats.

External extensions are CKAN extensions that don’t come packaged with CKAN, but must be downloaded and installed separately. A good place to find external extensions is the list of extensions on the CKAN wiki. Again, follow each extension’s own documentation to install, setup and use the extension.

This document covers everything you need to know to write your own CKAN extensions.