Introduction

Moekura is a self-hostable booru: an image board where posts are found by their tags. The same program and database layout serve a private, single-user collection on a small VPS or Raspberry Pi and a public site with millions of posts, many web servers and a CDN. Growing a site means changing configuration and running more processes, never switching software.

What it does:

• Posts: upload images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, optionally JPEG XL) and videos (MP4, WebM) from a file or a link. Exact duplicates are refused; similar images are found by their perceptual hash.
• Tags: categories (general, artist, copyright, character, meta), aliases and implications, autocomplete, and a search syntax with tags, wildcards and filters. An optional tagger suggests tags for new uploads with a machine learning model, on the CPU.
• People: accounts with roles, favorites, votes, blacklists and per-user settings; registration can be open, invite-only, approved by staff, or closed.
• Moderation: an approval queue, flags, deletion with reasons, bans of users and networks, and a log of every staff action.
• Private sites: keep everything behind a login, with file links that expire.
• An API covering what the site does, with API keys and a reference generated from the code.

It is free software under the AGPL-3.0: if you run a modified version as a public service, you must publish your changes.

Start with installing it with Docker Compose.