Get Involved

Atlas is an open-source project and we’d love for you to get involved. Below are a all the resources that will help you join in. Participation comes in many forms:

  • Hack something up using the Atlas API, blog about it and get us to link to it
  • Have a chat with us about the features and formats that you’d find useful
  • Tell us when something doesn’t quite work the way you’d expect it to here
  • Provide a metadata endpoint for us to ingest
  • Develop an adapter for a new source of content, current sources are listed here
  • Help improve the core of the code
  • Write client libraries for other languages

Calls for Help

There are a number of things that help would be hugely appreciated with. If you would like to contribute to the API core, please get in touch about:

  • Improving the ITV adapter
  • Developing a Five adapter

Project Hosting

The source-code, issue tracking and wiki are all hosted on Github.

Additionally, communication is all handled through Google Groups. If you’re interested in joining the project or just asking us something, the group is the best place to start.

Alternatively, if you notice something is wrong, or just have a feature request, feel free to use our Issue Tracker.

License

Atlas is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Client Libraries

The Java client library can be found at http://github.com/atlasapi/atlas-client along with how to use it.

@micrypt very kindly started a simple Python client library: http://github.com/micrypt/atlas-client/

Please contact us if you’d like to write libraries in other languages, that would be amazing!

Build Instructions

If you’re interested in playing with the code you can find build and run instructions at http://github.com/atlasapi/atlas. Let us know what you think!

The Team

Atlas is an open-source project so the most up-to-date list of people involved is Github and the Google Group. The MetaBroadcast team sponsors and actively develops Atlas while the previous incarnations of the project benefited from valuable contributions from Ashok Argent-Katwala, Lee Denison, Rob Chatley, BBC R&D and 4iP.

Atlas Is

  • The open-source, open-API index that gathers and stores video & audio information from 10+ sources, so that you can build cool apps swiftly
  • The way to learn all about a content link, or to find the content link itself

Atlas Does

  • Runs sophisticated title searches
  • Helps you get to content you can actually watch, like "I want to watch Glee and I am in the US"
  • Automatically produces all content lists needed for an online video service, from episodes in a brand to a-to-z lists and the current highlights
  • Stores all you expect: title, description, image, thumbnail, genres, tags and many ways to play it
  • Keeps an eye on Twitter, indexing all content mentions and what's currently hot
  • Next to web, finds mobile and TV friendly content
  • Lets you ask for content by time, like "What's on the BBC right now"
  • Outputs information in many different formats

Atlas Will

  • Figure equivalent content from different sources
  • Search across title, description, tags and genres
  • Add more and more sources, and improve and augment the data from the current ones