Metron

A community created comic-book database.

🤔 Motivation

Currently, the only comic book database the provides a REST API for users is Comic Vine. Unfortunately, since it's a corporately-owned service, the community that uses it has no control over the amount of resources provided to maintain it or ensure it's continued accessibility. So, I started Metron as an alternative to Comic Vine and as an educational exercise.

🔊 Community

🤝 Contributing

if you're interested in helping add comics to the database, head over to https://metron.cloud and read the Editing Guidelines before signing up for an account.

If you got knowledge of Python, Django or System Administration, I'm always looking for help with the technical side of the project, so please contact me.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please head over to the discussion page.

💸 Donating

If you are interested in donating to the Metron Comic Book Database to help with server and development costs, you can back us through OpenCollective.

👍🏻 Alternatives

The project is fairly new compared to the other databases, so it might not meet your needs. Some alternatives include:

• Grand Comics Database (GCD) - Large database, that unfortunately doesn't provide an API.
• League of Comic Geeks - Has an API that is only available to retailers, and they seem to have zero interest in opening access to their community.
• Comic Vine - Publicly available API.