YGGo! - Open Source Web Search Engine

Written by inspiration to explore Yggdrasil ecosystem, because of last YaCy node there was discontinued. This engine also could be useful for crawling regular websites, small business resources, local networks.

The project goal - simple interface, clear architecture and lightweight server requirement.

Online instances

• http://[201:23b4:991a:634d:8359:4521:5576:15b7]/yggo
• http://94.140.114.241/yggo/

Screenshots

https://github.com/YGGverse/YGGo/tree/main/media

License

• Engine sources MIT License
• Home page animation by alvarotrigo

Requirements

php8^
php-dom
php-pdo
php-curl
php-gd
php-mysql
sphinxsearch

Installation

• The webroot dir is /public
• Single configuration file placed here /config/app.php.txt and need to be configured and renamed to /config/app.php
• By the idea, script automaticaly generates database structure in /storage folder (where could be nice to collect other variative and tmp data - like logs, etc). Make sure storage folder writable.
• Set up the /crontab/crawler.php script for execution every the minute, but it mostly related of the configs and targetal network volume, there is no debug implemented yet, so let's silentize it by /dev/null
• Script has no MVC model, because of super simple. It's is just 2 files, and everything else stored incapsulated in /library classes.

Configuration

Crontab

0 * * * * indexer --all --rotate

0 0 * * * cd /YGGo/crontab && php cleaner.php > /dev/null 2>&1
* * * * * cd /YGGo/crontab && php crawler.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Roadmap / ideas

• Web pages full text ranking search
• Make search results pagination
• Add robots.txt support (Issue #2)
• Improve yggdrasil links detection, add .ygg domain zone support
• Make page description visible - based on the cached content dump, when website description tag not available, add condition highlights
• Images search (basically implemented but requires testing and some performance optimization)
• Index cleaner
• Crawl queue balancer, that depends from CPU available
• Implement smart queue algorithm that indexing new sites homepage in higher priority
• Implement database auto backup on crawl process completing
• Add transactions to prevent data loss on DB crashes
• Distributed index data sharing between the nodes trough service API
• An idea to make unique gravatars for sites without favicons, because simpler to ident, comparing to ipv6
• An idea to make some visitors counters, like in good old times?

Contributions

Please make a new master branch for each patch in your fork before create PR

git checkout master
git checkout -b my-pr-branch-name

See also: SQLite tree

Donate to contributors

• @d47081: BTC | DOGE | Support our server by order Linux VPS

Feedback

Please, feel free to share your ideas and bug reports here or use sources for your own implementations.

Have a good time.