Lightseeker - A supercharged search engine API for LBRY.

Lightseeker consists of 4 different components, that together offer a supercharged search of publications on the LBRY network.

• MeiliSearch - as the database backend.
• Sync - a service that syncs claims in the MeiliSearch database.
• Purge - a service that removes any blocked/filtered content from the database.
• Lightseeker - a search API server, which is a drop-in replacement for Lighthouse.

Roadmap

• Use HUB servers for Sync instead of Chainquery.

Usage

• To make a simple search by string:

  https://{LIGHTSEEKER_INSTANCE}/search?s={STRING_TO_SEARCH}
  

• To get autocomplete suggestions:

  https://{LIGHTSEEKER_INSTANCE}/autocomplete?s={STRING_TO_COMPLETE}
  

Installation

Prerequisites

• Node
• MeiliSearch

After you've made sure all of that is set up, you are almost all set! You are now just three simple steps away from a working Lightseeker instance.

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/LBRYFoundation/lightseeker.git

Install dependencies

npm install

Start Lightseeker

npm run start

That's it! Now it should be live at http://localhost:3000, or whatever the PORT environment variable is set to.

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome and encouraged. For more details, see https://lbry.tech/contribute.

Licence

This project is MIT licensed. For the full license, see LICENSE.