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Metadata sources

There are several ways to get metadata into Stash. Choose a type based on how much automation, coverage, and control you need.

You can configure your metadata sources under Settings > Metadata Providers. See sections below for more details.

Types

Stash-box instances

Stash-box instances provides automated or semi-automated tagging of scenes, performers and studios by matching fingerprints, StashIDs or names. The endpoint and API key are available on your stash-box account page.

Good for broad coverage and community-maintained tags.

Scrapers

Scrapers are built-in method to fetch metadata from wide-ranging external sources (databases, studio websites or any other website).

Best when you need source-specific accuracy or official studio metadata.

Scraper sources

Stash comes preconfigured with stashapp/CommunityScrapers source maintained by stashapp community.