Download the source code
and OSS database

To look at the complete Open Source Shakespeare (OSS) site, download one of the databases and the codebase archive. As of May 21, 2026, the site is running on Apache 2.x with PHP 8.3, and the database is MySQL 8.0. It should run under other server configurations without much difficulty.

You may download the OSS database and codebase and use them in personal, non-commercial projects under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.

• All Shakespeare texts included in the database are in the public domain and may be used freely for any purpose.
• Any noncommercial reuse of OSS data or code requires attribution to Open Source Shakespeare and a link to www.opensourceshakespeare.org.
• Commercial reuse is not authorized without permission from George Mason University.
• Inquiries, compliments, complaints, and idle threats should be e-mailed to mail@opensourceshakespeare.org.

To open the .zip files, you need a product like PKZip or WinZip. The source code file with the .gz extension can be opened with either of those products, or by the gzip program on any UNIX/Linux machine.

oss-db-full.zip
5,673k

Complete database dump from phpMyAdmin, in SQL format

oss.zip
9,277k

Microsoft Access database, with the stemmed and phonetic paragraphs

oss-lite.zip
5,279k

Microsoft Access database, without the stemmed or phonetic paragraphs

oss-textdb.zip
5,781k

Core database tables in delimited text files

oss-www.tar.gz
81k

The OSS site codebase, in gzip format (database password replaced with "xxx" for security reasons)