# Celery Task API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/celery/celery-task-api/  
**Provider:** Celery — https://apis.io/providers/celery/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/userguide/tasks.html

Celery Task API is one of 8 APIs that [Celery](https://apis.io/providers/celery/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Python, Task Queue, and Task. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and a getting-started guide.

Core API for defining and executing distributed tasks in Celery. Supports task decorators, retries, timeouts, rate limiting, and custom task classes.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/userguide/tasks.html
- **Reference** — https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/reference/celery.app.task.html
- **GettingStarted** — https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/celery/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Celery APIs (7)

- [Celery Application API](https://apis.io/apis/celery/celery-application-api/)
- [Celery Canvas API](https://apis.io/apis/celery/celery-canvas-api/)
- [Celery Beat API](https://apis.io/apis/celery/celery-beat-api/)
- [Celery Worker API](https://apis.io/apis/celery/celery-worker-api/)
- [Celery Result Backend API](https://apis.io/apis/celery/celery-result-api/)
- [Celery Signals API](https://apis.io/apis/celery/celery-signals-api/)
- [Celery Monitoring and Events API](https://apis.io/apis/celery/celery-monitoring-api/)

## Tags

Python, Task Queue, Task

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