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This short guide details all the requirements for being **automatically added to the GunCAD Index**.

None of these are hard requirements for being added at all. If you reach out to me, I'll add you unless there's something very wrong with your channel.

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# Quick Foreword

The GunCAD Index operates on a very simple principle: it maintains a list of Odysee channels that it knows are GunCAD authors and pulls everything they post (that's not a video) into its database for searching. There's extra stuff for tagging and pulling Odysee view stats and stuff, but that's not important.

What *is* important is that **you know what to do to make the Index find your channel**. We have an automated mechanism by which the Index finds new authors -- here's how to make yourself visible.

# Requirements

## 1. Have an Odysee Channel

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    A screenshot of the "add channel" menu item

We **cannot acquire Anonymous releases**. Make your claims under a channel. If you signed up to Odysee without making a channel, you can do so quickly by clicking your user icon in the top-right corner.

## 2. Have at least one release

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    A screenshot of a channel's "Content" page, showing a gun-related release

We can't tell if you're a gun designer unless you have a gun design on your channel. Make one.

## 3. Have the "guncad" tag on that release

Similar to your channel, we need the `guncad` tag on **just one of your releases**. You don't have to add it to every one, you only need to add it to one so we know you read this guide and are an author.

# Other Criteria

We try to vacuum out the corners and catch people who aren't actively watching this documentation, who might not be able to update their releases, etc. To this end, we match a few more corner cases too:

## Tag Overload

If you add tags to your channel through Odysee, you can add up to 5. This is fine, feel free to add that many.

*However*, if you use other means to interact with your channel, you can add a *very* large number of tags to your channel. And a lot of people just add all the default ones, which is annoying as hell.

To that end: if you edit your channel's tags via the CLI and add too many, we'll ignore you. Keep it below 10 and you'll be fine.

## A lot of channel tags work

Check this out: [link to source code](https://gitlab.com/guncad-index/index/-/blob/master/odyseescraper/management/commands/discover.py?ref_type=heads#L25)

We maintain a *massive* list of tags that will work to discover an account. *Any* of these tags will satisfy condition 2 if you have them on already.

## Reposting works

If a user who is already on the Index reposts one of your claims, that satisfies condition 2. Thus, if you're on the Index and you see something cool someone else made, **you should repost it** so we can find it.

## Automatic tagging rules

In addition to the "shibboleth" condition for condition 4, we also add you into the Index if any of your releases match an automatic tagging rule. We can be very confident that you're posting guns if, say, you tagged a release with "9mm".

## Yell at me

You know what's a surefire way to get added to the GunCAD Index?

Telling me you want in. I can absolutely just add people manually.

Reach out using the contact information in the footer.

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