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I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it’s officially up and running now: https://www.search-lemmy.com/
This is an enhanced search engine for Lemmy. With a few primary goals:
- You can choose a preferred instance. After choosing what your primary instance is, and performing a search ALL links will open in that instance.
- This aims to be a replacement for using
site:reddit.com
in Google, but just for the fediverse. - You can filter the search results by:
- Instance – This will filter the results to only show communities that belong to a particular instance. Just type something like
instance:lemmy.wrold
orinstance:https://lemmy.world/
. This is separate from your preferred instance, such that you can search for posts on lemmy.world while still opening them on lemmy.ml. - Community – You can refine the search by a specific community. You use the same syntax that you’d use here
community:!fediverse .world
. - Author – Similar to the above you can also filter by a specific author such as:
author: .world
.
- Instance – This will filter the results to only show communities that belong to a particular instance. Just type something like
- The entire thing is open-source. You can view the code and even host your own instance… See more details here: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search.
NOTE: This only supports Lemmy instances for now. Other fediverse type instances may be in the future depending on how this works out.
I’ve been working on this over just the last few weeks, so it hasn’t had a chance to crawl much of the fediverse yet. For now it only supports lemmy.world
and lemmy.ml
but other preferred-instances will come online as time goes by.
If anyone finds any bugs, and I’m sure you will, or if anyone has any suggestions PLEASE raise an issue on GitHub for me to track. Lastly, if anyone wants to help contribute please feel free to reach out.
NOTE TO SERVER ADMINS: You can prevent your site from being crawled by adding lemmy-search
to your robots.txt for the user-agent.
Thanks for this! I was trying to figure out how to best replace the old “site:reddit.com” trick, and it did not quite work with lemmy with how it is federated. I hope that longer term we can get an “all” tab on lemmy that truly tries to pull from as many of the federated sites as possible to get us closer to the Reddit experience. I tried to do some research on extreme heat clothing due to the wet bulb temps in my area but r/mensfashion and most other clothing reddits still seemed private, maybe I can try searching with your solution now.
@marsara9 would be cool if it had the ability to search through all instances. don’t know if thats possible
Eventually. I’m waiting on a bug in Lemmy itself to be fixed. Mainly once I can post a link to a post here and anyone can click on it without leaving their home instance.
Oh wanted to add, as a workaround for now you can set your home instance to lemmy.world or lemmy.ml. Because of how the fediverse works, searching the larger older instances should have a fairly complete copy of content.
Once I do “fix” this though, note that you may click on a link and get a 404 page. As that post may not be on your home instance.
One rule I will always follow for this project is that if I display a link, that link MUST take you to your home instance and that link MUST point to the post in question (but I cannot guarantee that you won’t get an error, just that you won’t be taken to a completely different post)
@marsara9
I see. Will just set home to the same as the one I search. I’m using Friendica so I’m used to copy links to the search field in order to fetch remote Lemmy posts.
Can it be made to search in the comments? Right now, I’m finding more results when I use the search function inside lemmy.world than if I use this
That’s on my todo list. For the initial release I wanted to get posts working primarily.
See: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/blob/master/server/src/crawler/crawler.rs#L178
this is awesome and very needed. Thank you.
I would really like to see this get integrated into SearXNG
Missed opportunity to name it “Loogle”
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is this a crawler or does it index via mass federation? Or is it using API calls?
API calls. Primarily it just uses
/api/v3/post/list
.Funny enough though, one of my first versions I tried to use mass federation, but ran into technical issues.
If I use this search engine instead of the one on the website, does it mean it would put less strain on the server? Yeah, I’m not quite techy.
If so, I guess this is a big step.
Fine addition to my keyword/bookmarks library.
All I need now is the option to sort by New.
If I use this search engine instead of the one on the website, does it mean it would put less strain on the server? Yeah, I’m not quite techy.
Yes. Searches on my site only hit my server and don’t touch your home server unless you click on a link.
It says I am blocked from using it. Any reason?
This project dead?
Nobody has mentioned it yet, but https://fedi-search.com/ already exists
Holy fuck I’ve been thinking about how annoying it is that I can’t search lemmy for a few days now - and here you are suddenly just handing the tool I want to me with features that I didn’t even think about. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Adding this post to my saved.
This looks good, I just found an old (3 year old post - I didn’t even know Lemmy was around back then!) and commented on it. There were also funnily two other recent comments (one from 2 months ago and another 3 months old).
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For micro/personal server runners
Having to send out all those posts, comments, likes is killing the servers holding all the content. The project leaders really need to make an announcement about the performance problems, they are systemic.
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