H5P

Open-source interactive HTML5 content types

★ Stars151151 on GitHub

Last commit2 months ago11 Aug 2026

LicenceMITPer the project

From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026. Stars shown are for the PHP library; H5P is a family of repos under github.com/h5p. The repository's licence file is detected as GPL-3.0; MIT is the licence of the application itself.

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H5P lets you create, share and reuse interactive content (quizzes, videos, presentations) in browsers. It integrates with Moodle, WordPress and others; the core libraries are open source.

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Status	Open source
Licence	MIT
Platforms	Web
Category	Content authoring (H5P & alike)
Website	h5p.org
Source	GitHub

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