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Grafeas Group, Ltd.

A 501(c)(3) dedicated to accessibility and making the world better. See our work at https://reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit

Welcome to the code!

The best way to describe our organization is to start with our mission statement:

We provide a framework for crowd-sourcing accessible, text-based content for all Internet users, regardless of disability, access devices, or data restrictions.

There is a lot of content on the internet that is inaccessible to those with visual restrictions, no data plan, or otherwise an inability to load content. A lot of that content is hidden inside images — images that a phone with low data cannot load, or assistive screen reading technology cannot interpret. We are pioneering a system for locating this content and passing it to volunteers to create pure text representations so that everyone can access it.

This system, so far, has been deployed on Reddit.com under the subreddit r/TranscribersOfReddit and features an innovative use of gamification concepts and volunteering to engage users and improve communities. Starting with just two people in April of 2017, over 4500 volunteers have transcribed more than 185,000 pieces of content in the following four years. We currently serve a combined digital population of approximately one million Reddit subscribers.


All of our code (that reasonably can be) is open sourced and it can be found right here! Our primary codebases are separated into two groups: the bots that help us run the subreddit and the bots that help us run the organization.

The ToR Family

The bots that power Transcribers of Reddit (ToR) all directly interact with Reddit primarily and with our org bots. Those repositories are:

The Organization Family

Like any modern organization, there's a bunch of automation going on behind the scenes that helps us do our jobs! Our three primary bots here are:

  • blossom — our data monolith that powers everything and keeps track of All Man Was Not Meant To Know
  • buttercup — an in-progress system for interacting with volunteers in Discord and assisting with moderation
  • bubbles — a Slack chatbot that helps us get literally anything done

Interested in helping out?

Just take a look at some of our primary repos and dive in! Don't feel bad about asking for help or for clarification about a particular issue that's open — we're always down to help get you started and provide any missing context. We appreciate you, and thanks for helping make the net a better place!

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  1. tor tor Public archive

    Community curation bot for /r/TranscribersOfReddit

    Python 39 15

  2. tor_archivist tor_archivist Public archive

    The officially licensed archivist for /r/TranscribersOfReddit

    Python 3 1

  3. tor_ocr tor_ocr Public archive

    Apprentice transcriber bot for /r/TranscribersOfReddit

    Python 6 5

  4. blossom blossom Public archive

    The website. The app. The everything.

    Python 6 3

  5. Bubbles Bubbles Public

    The very chatty chatbot

    Python 3 2

  6. buttercup buttercup Public archive

    Our personal assistant in Discord

    Python 5 2

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Showing 10 of 28 repositories
  • blossom Public archive

    The website. The app. The everything.

    GrafeasGroup/blossom’s past year of commit activity
    Python 6 3 91 (4 issues need help) 0 Updated Oct 10, 2024
  • blossom-wrapper Public archive
    GrafeasGroup/blossom-wrapper’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 MIT 0 3 0 Updated Mar 28, 2024
  • Bubbles Public

    The very chatty chatbot

    GrafeasGroup/Bubbles’s past year of commit activity
    Python 3 MIT 2 9 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Oct 11, 2023
  • buttercup Public archive

    Our personal assistant in Discord

    GrafeasGroup/buttercup’s past year of commit activity
    Python 5 MIT 2 37 (4 issues need help) 0 Updated Oct 11, 2023
  • tor Public archive

    Community curation bot for /r/TranscribersOfReddit

    GrafeasGroup/tor’s past year of commit activity
    Python 39 MIT 15 32 2 Updated Sep 21, 2023
  • tor_archivist Public archive

    The officially licensed archivist for /r/TranscribersOfReddit

    GrafeasGroup/tor_archivist’s past year of commit activity
    Python 3 MIT 1 3 0 Updated Jul 26, 2023
  • tor_ocr Public archive

    Apprentice transcriber bot for /r/TranscribersOfReddit

    GrafeasGroup/tor_ocr’s past year of commit activity
    Python 6 MIT 5 3 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Jul 17, 2023
  • templates Public

    Transcription templates in HTML format for static rendering.

    GrafeasGroup/templates’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 4 MIT 1 0 0 Updated Jul 10, 2023
  • utonium Public

    Slack plugin system written specifically for Grafeas bots.

    GrafeasGroup/utonium’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Mar 20, 2023
  • ansible-workspace Public archive

    A workspace for Ansible roles and playbooks as a deployment and provisioning mechanism.

    GrafeasGroup/ansible-workspace’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 0 0 1 Updated Dec 8, 2022

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