Potential new data source: Google Poly
Hi,
I'm working on an open source replacement for Google Poly and as part of that I've been trying to restore the data that was saved before it was shut down.
This data has been made available in a few other places before ( https://polygone.art/ and https://poly.pizza/ ) but we want to offer a more comprehensive set of models and offer a public API that is mostly compatible with the previous Google API.
There's approximately 130,000 models available with titles, descriptions, categories and tags. (the quality of the tagging is variable and the descriptions are user-provided so also rather variable).
Is this data of any interest to objaverse?
Wait for your work :D
It's of interest to the community I'm pretty sure!
But do you have the data? do you intend to scrape polygone.art/poly.pizza?
Internet Archive has all the data and we're in the process of analysing it and cleaning it up.
It's a mess of variant formats, undocumented extensions and inconsistent metadata. Our first priority is getting it to display correctly in our web viewer. That's nearly there. Cleaning it up and figuring out which download formats to offer via the API is the next task after that.
But we can share the data as it exists at the moment if that helps. It's either JSONL, a zip or one big JSON file that has metadata and urls that can be resolved to Internet Archive urls.