Run this to start a basic Danbooru instance:
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danbooru/danbooru/master/bin/setup | sh
This will install Docker Compose and use it to start Danbooru. When it's done, Danbooru will be running at http://localhost:3000.
Alternatively, if you already have Docker Compose installed, you can just do:
git clone http://github.com/danbooru/danbooru
cd danbooru
touch .env.local config/danbooru_local_config.rb
sudo docker compose up
If you get any errors, check docker compose version
and make sure you're running at least Docker Compose v2.21.0.
When you're done, you can run the following to delete everything:
sudo docker compose down --volumes # Delete all data and images in your Danbooru instance.
sudo docker image prune # Clean up all unused Docker images.
rm -rf ~/danbooru # Delete the Danbooru code.
See the Docker Guide for more information on running Danbooru using Docker. This is the recommended way to run Danbooru.
Alternatively, you may use the Manual Installation Guide to install Danbooru without Docker. Manual installation is much more difficult than using Docker, and therefore is not recommended or officially supported.
For help, ask in the #technical channel on the Danbooru Discord, or in the discussions area on Github.
Danboou depends on a couple of cloud services and several microservices to implement certain features.
The following features require an Amazon AWS account:
- Pool history
- Post history
The following features require a Google Cloud account:
- BigQuery database export
IQDB integration is delegated to the IQDB service.
In order to access pool and post histories you will need to install and configure the Archives service.
The following features are delegated to the Reportbooru service:
- Post views
- Missed searches report
- Popular searches report
Post recommendations require the Recommender service.