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Openverse

Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Online
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  1.  Search by license
  2.  Built-in search engine

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Online Services, Photos & Graphics

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Openverse, and it has gotten 74 likes

Openverse was added to AlternativeTo by Douze on and this page was last updated . Openverse is sometimes referred to as CC Search. 

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N.A. Ferrell
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CC Search is a very good search engine for creative commons images. It allows for narrowing searches by specific CC licenses and the full results page for an image includes citation information. I have found it very useful when I need an image to include in an article or blog post.

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What is Openverse?

Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.

Openverse searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.

Currently Openverse only searches images and audio, with search for video provided through External Sources. But we plan to add additional media types such as open texts and 3D models, with the ultimate goal of providing access to the estimated 2.5 billion CC licensed and public domain works on the web. All of our code is open source (Openverse frontend, Openverse API, Openverse Catalog) and we welcome community contribution. You can see what we’re currently working on.

Openverse is the successor to CC Search which was launched by Creative Commons in 2019, after its migration to WordPress in 2021. You can read more about this transition in the official announcements from Creative Commons and WordPress. We remain committed to our goal of tackling discoverability and accessibility of open access media.