crawler-extension vs PeARS-orchard

crawler-extension

A browser extension that can be installed by volunteers to participate in mwmbl distributed crawling. (by mwmbl)

This is the development version of PeARS, the people's search engine. More compact but less robust than PeARS-federated. If you just want to use PeARS in real life, use PeARS-federated instead. (by PeARSearch)

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crawler-extension		PeARS-orchard
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5	Mentions	1
20	Stars	35
-	Growth	-
6.1	Activity	0.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	14 days ago
JavaScript	Language	HTML
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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crawler-extension

Posts with mentions or reviews of crawler-extension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-18.

Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2023

Thank you for sharing this, this is very interesting. I will give it a try, although I don't think it can replace my current engine (DuckDuckGo/Searx), but rahter complement it maybe (by having a smaller, more curated set of data).
Particularly I am having a great time reading the crawler extension source-code: https://github.com/mwmbl/crawler-extension
Show HN: Create Tours for Your GitHub Projects
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2022

This looks cool, but I'm not familiar with the concept of a "tour" for a project. Can you point me to an example?
I'm currently trying to promote my open source project Mwmbl (in particular the crawler extension https://github.com/mwmbl/crawler-extension). I'm wondering what a tour would look like for it.
Show HN: An open source web crawler for the Mwmbl non-profit search engine
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2022

2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2022
Show HN: Mwmbl crawler extension: crawl the web from Firefox
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jun 2022

PeARS-orchard

Posts with mentions or reviews of PeARS-orchard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-18.

Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2023

> We now have a distributed crawler that runs on our volunteers' machines! If you have Firefox you can help out by installing our extension.
This is a very interesting idea that other search engines have tried before. Actually, the Brave search engine is built over Cliqz[6] that implemented this same idea but *without* the user's consent.
Copy pasting from an old comment I made about this "human web" crawler idea:
Both PeARS[1] and Cliqz[2] tried to do that. Both got direct support from Mozilla[3][4] but it looks like neither really kicked off.
PeARS was meant to be installed voluntarily by users who would then choose to share their indexes only to those they personally trusted, so the idea is very privacy conscious but also very hard to scale.
Cliqz, on the other hand, apparently tried to work around that issue by having their add-on bundled by default in some Firefox installations[5] which was obviously very controversial because of its privacy and user consent implications.
I still think the idea has potential, though, even if it's in a more limited scope.
[1] https://github.com/PeARSearch/PeARS-orchard
[2] https://cliqz.com/en/whycliqz/human-web
[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2016/06/22/mozilla-gives-3...
[4] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2016/08/23/mozilla-makes-s...
[5] https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whi...
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_e...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crawler-extension and PeARS-orchard you can also consider the following projects:

searxng - SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

storm-crawler - A scalable, mature and versatile web crawler based on Apache Storm

parquet-floor - A lightweight Java library that facilitates reading and writing Apache Parquet files without Hadoop dependencies

Starthome - Starthome is a basic minimalistic startpage/homepage.

Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

massearcher - Search multiple search engines in chrome.

docli - Command-line interfaces made easy

crawler-server - Server for the Mwmbl crawler

scaling-to-distributed-crawling - Repository for the Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Scaling to Distributed Crawling blogpost with the final code.

Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance

mwmbl - An open source, non-profit search engine implemented in python