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Software Heritage

Software Heritage preserves software source code for present and future generations.

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Software Heritage harvests publicly available source code from many software projects and keeps it safe in a universal archive. Users can browse archived origins and their history, request archiving of repositories not yet ingested, archive research software, and rescue legacy code. Programmatic access to the archive is available through an API.

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