Open Library (https://openlibrary.org) is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
- Overview
- Installation
- Code Organization
- Architecture
- Developer's Guide
- Running Tests
- Contributing
- Public APIs
- FAQs
- License
Open Library is an effort started in 2006 to create "one web page for every book ever published". It provides access to many public domain and out-of-print books, which can be read online.
First you need to have installed Virtualbox and Vagrant.
Next, fork the OpenLibrary repo to your own Github account and clone your forked repo to your local machine:
git clone [email protected]:YOURACCOUNT/openlibrary.git
Enter the project directory and provision + launch the dev virtual machine instance using vagrant:
cd openlibrary
vagrant up
You can now view your running instance by loading http://localhost:8080 in a web browser.
You can turn off the virtual machine from the host machine using:
vagrant halt
To administrate and ssh into the vagrant dev virtual machine, type:
vagrant ssh
Note: Remember that, thanks to vagrant and virtual box, your local
folder openlibrary (where you ran vagrant up) contains exactly
the same files as /openlibrary in the dev virtual machine (the one
that you login to via vagrant ssh).
If running in Vagrant, but services don't seem to have been properly started -- e.g. the site works but you can't login with the default credentials -- try running vagrant up --provision.
For instructions on administrating your Open Library instance and build instructions for developers, refer the Developer's Quickstart.md document.
You can find more info digging into this old (and in part outdated) document here: http://code.openlibrary.org/en/latest/
- openlibrary/core - core openlibrary functionality, imported and used by www
- openlibrary/plugins - other models, controllers, and view helpers
- openlibrary/views - views for rendering web pages
- openlibrary/templates - all the templates used in the website
- openlibrary/macros - macros are like templates, but can be called from wikitext
OpenLibrary is developed on top of the Infogami wiki system, which is itself built on top of the web.py Python web framework and the Infobase database framework.
Once you've read the overview of OpenLibrary Backend technologies, it's highly encouraged you read the developer primer which explains how to use Infogami (and its database, Infobase):
Open Library tests can be run using pytest (py.test).
Inside vagrant, go to the application base directory:
cd /openlibrary
make test
Integration tests use the Splinter webdriver with Google Chrome. For instructions on installation requirements and running integration tests, see Integration Tests README
We'd love your help! Choose a bug from our project board: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/projects/1
All source code published here is available under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. Please see http://gplv3.fsf.org/ for more information.