Software Heritage Deposit Service

Intended audience

Partners working to connect our deposit service to their IT systems.

The deposit service allows a partner to submit software source archives and their associated metadata to the Software Heritage archive.

Metadata can be also submitted referencing a an existing repository url or a SWHIDs.

Explanations

Read more about the deposit principles and usages.

• Explanations
  • What’s a deposit?
  • Why do we need metadata?
  • Real-world examples / integrations

How to guides

To assist informed users with their deposits.

• How to guides
  • Request an account
  • Prepare your metadata and artifacts
  • Make a first code & metadata deposit
  • Make a multi-step code & metadata deposit
  • Make a metadata-only deposit
  • Deposit a new version of an existing origin
  • Integrate a deposit to your website
  • Support the deposit service

References

Technical documentation and references.

• References
  • Internal Workflows
  • Protocol reference
  • API reference
  • Command line interface reference
  • Error codes and solutions