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Provider API – Flickr
Flickr API We run an hourly job to pull the last hour’s uploads from Flickr. You can find the documentation for Flickr API here. We currently use the flickr.photos.search method to query the API. Here is an example showing the type of query string we use: https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=REDACTED&min_upload_date=2019-11-22%2017:10:00&max_upload_date=2019-11-22%2017:15:00&license=1&media=photos&content_type=1&extras=description,license,date_upload,date_taken,owner_name,tags,o_dims,url_t,url_s,url_m,url_l&per_page=500&format=json&nojsoncallback=1&page=1 Such a call to the flickr.photos.search method produces a result of…
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Provider API – Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum API We call the following endpoint from the Cleveland Museum of Art: http://openaccess-api.clevelandart.org/api/artworks/?cc0=1&limit=X&skip=Y Here, X and Y are replaced with offset information (e.g., we request only 1000 pieces at a time, and move the offset by 1000 for each request). Such a request returns a rather large JSON of the following form: { “info”: { “total”: 34911,…
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Image data reingestion strategy
Goal In order to keep the data in Openverse Catalog up to date over time, it is necessary to ‘recheck’ the information for each image periodically over time. This makes tracking metrics that change with time, e.g., ‘views’, more sensible. It also gives us the possibility of removing images from the index that were removed…
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Openverse Catalog
About Openverse Catalog is our database of metadata about CC-licensed works from across the internet. This data is found and parsed via Common Crawl data and open APIs, and the code is located in the openverse-catalog repository. The Openverse Catalog powers the Openverse API, which powers the Openverse frontend and the Openverse Browser Extension. For…
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Introducing the Openverse Development Weekly Chat
OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. will begin hosting a weekly chat on the #openverse slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel to discuss ongoing development and issues. There is…
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History of Openverse
Openverse, previously known as CC Search, was originally conceived as a prototype at Creative Commons. Timeline February 2017: Launched as a prototype September 2018: Enters beta with a new design and more providers March 2019: Shifts focus from discovery to reuse April 2019: Comes out of beta with 300M+ images January 2020: Launches an extension…
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Welcome
Welcome to Openverse! Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. Openverse includes hundreds of millions of Creative Commons licensed images and audio files. Need a free-to-reuse image for a post on your WordPress site, free from known copyright restrictions? Or a backing audio track for your independent film? Openverse is a great place to…
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Welcome
Welcome! Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. It is both a website where you can search, discover, and learn how to use and attribute media, as well as an openly accessible REST API. The OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. team…
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Welcome to Openverse
This is the Make site for the OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. project, a search engine for openly licensed media. We currently index over 500 million Creative Commons licensed images and will be adding audio and video support in the near future.…