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Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media.

Openverse

Openverse is a powerful search engine for GPL-compatible images, audio, and more. Openverse is live at openverse.org.

This repository contains most of the codebase, except for the Openverse catalog. Eventually the catalog will be merged into this repository as well.

• Catalog | The Apache Airflow-powered system for downloading and storing Openverse's metadata
• Ingestion server | The mechanism for refreshing the data from the catalog to the API
• API | The Django REST API for querying the database, used by the frontend
• Frontend | The public search engine at openverse.org, built with Vue and Nuxt
• Automations | Scripts used for various workflows around Openverse repositories and processes
• Utilities | Scripts or utilities which are useful across multiple projects or don't necessarily fit into a specific project.

This repository also contains the following directories.

• Brand | Brand assets for Openverse such as logo and icon and guidelines for using these assets
• RFCs | Proposals and planning documents for discussing changes to Openverse
• Templates | Common scaffolding code that is rendered and synced to the catalog repo

Keep in touch

You can keep in touch with the project via the following channels:

• GitHub
  • Issues
  • PRs
  • Discussions
  • Project Board
• Community Site
• #openverse channel in the Making WordPress Slack
  • Weekly Development Chat (@ Tuesday 15:00 UTC)
  • Monthly Prioritisation Meeting

Documentation

To use the Openverse API, please refer to the API consumer documentation.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! Feel free to join us on Slack and discuss the project with the engineers and community members on #openverse.

You are welcome to take any open issue in the tracker labelled help wanted or good first issue; there's no need to ask for permission in advance. Other issues are open for contribution as well, but may be less accessible or well-defined in comparison to those that are explicitly labelled.

See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for details.

Acknowledgments

Openverse, previously known as CC Search, was conceived and built at Creative Commons. We thank them for their commitment to open source and openly licensed content, with particular thanks to previous team members @ryanmerkley, @janetpkr, @lizadaly, @sebworks, @pa-w, @kgodey, @annatuma, @mathemancer, @aldenstpage, @brenoferreira, and @sclachar, along with their community of volunteers.