Sosse 1.3.2

Selenium Open Source Search Engine

SOSSE 🦦

SOSSE (Selenium Open Source Search Engine) is a search engine and crawler written in Python, distributed under the GNU-AGPLv3 license. It is hosted on both Gitlab and Github site, please use any of them to open feature requests, bug report or merge requests, or open a discussion.

SOSSE main features are:

• 🌍 Browser based crawling: the crawler can use Google Chromium and Selenium to index pages that use Javascript. Requests can also be used for faster crawling
• 🏖 Low resources requirements: SOSSE is entirely written in Python and uses PostgreSQL for data storage
• 🖼 Offline browsing: SOSSE can save HTML copy or take screenshots of crawled pages to create archives suitable for offline browsing
• 🔓 Authentication: the crawlers can submit authentication forms with provided credentials
• 🔗 Search engines shortcuts: shortcuts search queries can be used to redirect to external search engines (sometime called "bang" searches)
• 🔖 Search history: users can authenticate to log their search query history privately

See the documentation and screenshots.

Try it out

You can try the latest version with Docker:

docker run -p 8005:80 biolds/sosse:latest

Connect to port 8005, and log in with user admin, password admin.

To persist Docker data, or find alternative installation methods, please check the documentation.

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