Search/README.md

This projet is WIP

Completed Tasks

• Text results
• Image results
• Video results
• Map results
• Forums results
• HTML+CSS site (no JS version)
• Results cache
• Torrent results

Pending Tasks

• Website with JS version
• JS applets for results (such as calculator)
• Dynamic results loading as user scrolls
• Replace fonts, replace icons font for SVG or remove unnecessary icons for faster loading
• LXC container
• Docker container

Go Search Engine

A self-hosted metasearch engine that respects privacy, contains no ads, and serves as a proxy/alternative to Google website.

Features

• Text search using Google search results.
• Image search using the Qwant API.
• Video search using Piped API.
• Image viewing using proxy and direct links to image source pages for image searches.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go (version 1.18 or higher recommended)
• Access to the internet for fetching results from the Qwant API and Google

Running the Application

git clone https://weforgecode.xyz/Spitfire/Search.git
cd Search
chmod +x ./run.sh
./run.sh

Project Structure

• main.go: The entry point of the application, setting up the web server and routing.
• text.go: Handles text search requests, fetching results from Google and processing them for display.
• images.go: Contains logic for handling image search requests, including fetching data from the Qwant API and preparing it for the template.
• imageproxy.go: Part of images.go srach logic, handles image reuslts and displays them using proxy.
• /templates: Directory containing HTML templates for rendering the search interface and results.
  • search.html: The main search page template.
  • text.html: Template for displaying text search results.
  • images.html: Template for displaying image search results.
  • videos.html: Template for displaying video search results.
• /static/css: Directory for CSS stylesheets.
  • style.css: The main stylesheet for the search interface and results.
• /static/css: Directory for fonts and icons (as font).