Asqatasun
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Asqatasun, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Asqatasun's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Asqatasun | Free | Open source · GNU Affero GPL v3 |
The facts
Each one read from Asqatasun's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accessibility audits
- It assesses accessibility against RGAA and WCAG and can scan a whole site with a crawler.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API
- The documentation lists ways to use the server through Swagger and cURL, as well as a client for the Asqatasun Server.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- API and CI
- The maker says Asqatasun can be included in continuous integration through its API.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- All API endpoints require Basic Auth.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audit types
- The documentation describes page, site, scenario, and offline file audits.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The installation guide provides separate downloadable web application and API server binaries for self-hosting.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Export
- The documentation includes CSV export for audit data.checked 12 Oct 2026
- History
- The maker says Asqatasun was created in 2007 by Matthieu Faure and is a fork of Tanaguru.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure requirements
- The listed Ubuntu prerequisites include Java JRE 17, MariaDB 10.6, libGTK 3, libDbus, and haveged.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The documentation identifies the license as GNU Affero GPL v3.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Manual audits
- Users can scan a page, complete the audit manually, and produce a report.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline audits
- Offline file audits let users submit a saved page, including an intranet page or a template still under development.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline files
- It can scan offline files such as templates that are not online yet.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Asqatasun is an open-source website analyzer for web accessibility and search engine optimization.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Scan scope
- sitechecked 22 Sep 2026
- Scenario audits
- Scenario audits can assess web applications, multi-step forms, search-result pages, and different states of a page.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Scenario integration
- Scenario audits use Selenium commands, and the documentation describes recording a scenario with Selenium IDE before uploading it.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security configuration
- The web application installation example configures an OWASP ESAPI property and a token validity duration of 3600 seconds.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting requirements
- Regular installation instructions describe downloading separate server and web application binaries and configuring a database.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Site audits
- Site audits crawl a website to provide an overview of its accessibility and identify pages with issues.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project points users to its forum, an Element room, and an email contact for discussion and help.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported operating system
- The current v6 prerequisites page lists Ubuntu 22.04 as a supported operating system.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker site version
- The maker’s site identifies the powered-by version as Asqatasun v6.0.0-rc.6.checked 12 Oct 2026
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