# How/Where does KDE Discover load appstream metadata from?

**URL:** <https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-where-does-kde-discover-load-appstream-metadata-from/7515>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** discover\
**Created:** [November 19, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-where-does-kde-discover-load-appstream-metadata-from/7515 "2023-11-19T19:24:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![gamerminstrel](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/gamerminstrel/32/5767_2.png) [@gamerminstrel](https://discuss.kde.org/u/gamerminstrel)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-where-does-kde-discover-load-appstream-metadata-from/7515/1 "2023-11-19T19:24:23Z")

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Looking through the source, I understand that KDE pulls a list of the “Featured” apps from [here](https://autoconfig.kde.org/discover/), but that only provides the app package names. From where does Discover get the actual info and metadata like summaries and links to demo images for each of these apps?

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**Author:** ![ngraham](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/ngraham/32/64_2.png) [@ngraham](https://discuss.kde.org/u/ngraham)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-where-does-kde-discover-load-appstream-metadata-from/7515/2 "2023-11-25T17:44:11Z")

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That information is locally installed on your system, by your distro. It usually lives at `/usr/share/metainfo/`.