Download websites that use Liberapay

A payment technology usually implies a transaction. Liberapay implies a request instead. Recurring donations to a person, a project or a collective are not sales, and the sites carrying a donation button are mostly not shops. Project documentation, maintainer pages, community wikis, small media outlets and personal sites make up the bulk of the population, which makes the entry an unusual one inside the Payment processors category.

Openness here is not a footnote. The platform is released under the MIT licence, written in Python, and has run since 2015 on a non-profit model that takes no commission beyond processing fees. A donation service that publishes its own code and refuses a cut attracts a specific constituency, largely open-source contributors and independent creators, so the domains displaying the button are self-selecting in a way that a commercial processor's merchant list is not.

Detection is straightforward and shallow at the same time. What appears in a page is an outbound link or a badge pointing at a profile, easy to recognise and equally easy to miss. Many maintainers put the button in a repository readme, a package listing or a social profile rather than on a website of their own, and none of that surfaces in a crawl of a domain. The count therefore records sites that display a donation button, not people who receive money through the service. As of October 2026 the badge is visible on 572 sites.

The value of a list here is in what it maps. Funding infrastructure is one of the few observable signals of how the non-commercial web sustains itself, and a set of domains asking for recurring support describes a community, a dependency graph and a funding model at once. Researchers studying open-source sustainability use lists like this to find projects funded directly by their users. Foundations use them to see who is asking and who is not. Anyone comparing donation platforms needs the overlap between them, and overlap only becomes visible when every domain sits on the table at the same time.