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+# Published Crawled Data
+
+Starchart publishes all crawled data. This document explains the
+format(s) and the directory structure of the published data.
+
+## Directory Structure
+
+```bash
+(lab)➜  starchart tree data
+data
+└── git.batsense.net
+	├── instance.yml
+	└── realaravinth
+		├── analysis-of-captcha-systems
+		│   └── publiccode.yml
+        └── user.yml
+```
+
+> Snippet of data crawled from git.batsense.net
+
+## Forge
+
+Each forge instance gets its own directory in the repository root path
+specified in the [configuration](../config/default.toml). All data
+crawled from an instance will be stored in the instance's directory
+only.
+
+Each forge instance directory contains an `instance.yml` file that
+describes the instance. The schema of `instance.yml` might change as
+starchart is currently under development.
+
+```yml
+---
+hostname: git.batsense.net
+forge_type: gitea
+```
+
+> example instance.yml
+
+## User
+
+A forge instance's user gets their own subdirectory in starchart and an
+`user.yml` to describe them. Information on all their repositories will be stored under
+this subdirectory.
+
+Like `instance.yml`, `user.yml` schema is not finalized too.
+
+```yml
+---
+hostname: git.batsense.net
+username: realaravinth
+html_link: "https://git.batsense.net/realaravinth"
+profile_photo: "https://git.batsense.net/avatars/bc11e95d9356ac4bdc035964be00ff0d"
+```
+
+> example user.yml
+
+## Repository
+
+Repository information is stored under the owner's subdirectory.
+Currently, partial support for
+[publiccodeyml](https://yml.publiccode.tools/) is implemented. So all
+repository information is stored in `publiccode.yml` under the
+repository subdirectory.
+
+```yml
+---
+publiccodeYmlVersion: "0.2"
+name: git.batsense.net
+url: "https://git.batsense.net/realaravinth/git.batsense.net"
+description:
+    en:
+        shortDescription: "Instance administration logs and discussions pertaining to this Gitea instance. Have a question about git.batsense.net? Please create an issue on this repository! :)"
+```
+
+> example publiccode.yml implemented by starchart
+
+See
+[forgeflux-org/starchart#3](https://github.com/forgeflux-org/starchart/issues/3) and
+[publiccodeyml/publiccodeyml/discussions](https://github.com/publiccodeyml/publiccode.yml/discussions/157) for more information.