SearXNG + recoll script or even recoll webui script

[AncientMystic]

https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/

"Recoll WebUI is a Python-based web interface for Recoll text search tool for Unix/Linux."

It would be nice to have scripts for recoll webui in a container, especially to help get more people aware of such a wonderful project.

Recoll indexes local documents and allows full search inside of documents instantly like a search engine for your files.

It is also possible to even link it into SearXNG so that your local documents can be searched on your SearXNG instance.

https://return42.github.io/searxng/dev/engines/online/recoll.html

Which if linked into SearXNG this also allows you to point open-webui to your local SearXNG instance and have your documents taken into account when it "searches the web" for results to form a response with. (Better in some cases, because you can index a large library and search them instantly without having to manually upload and process all the documents via RAG which is just impossible with open-webui when trying to process large libraries)

Altogether a SearXNG+Recoll script would be very useful for basic usage and AI usage with open-webui, when paired properly with SearXNG it opens up a lot of possibilities for libraries.

[MickLesk]

10 years old. sorry no.

The repository koniu/recoll-webui has seen no meaningful commits in over 10 years, and the last update is 5 years old, addressing only a minor config fix. The project includes its own bundled copy of an ancient bottle.py (a web framework), and lacks any modern dependency or update hygiene. Running this as a public-facing service or even in a LAN carries unacceptable security risks without upstream maintenance. The community appears inactive, and potential vulnerabilities or bugs won’t be fixed in a timely or reliable manner.

If you still want to use Recoll WebUI in a self-maintained setup:
Feel free to write a custom guide or script and publish this for all other users here: https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/discussions/new?category=guides

[AncientMystic]

Here is the official site for recoll, which lists an updated version

https://www.recoll.org/faqsandhowtos/webui-on-windows.html

Updated version:
https://framagit.org/medoc92/recollwebui

It seems to be actively maintained. (Last updated 3 weeks ago)