Lantern

A Meta Search Engine

Welcome 👋, Yet another java based Meta Search Engine with a highly modular structure. It rapidly sends queries to several search engines, aggregates the results, and categorizes the result by search engines they come from.

Here's why:

• Highly modular - Adding a new search engine/ Updating the previous engine is easy and Highly Configurable.
• Privacy respecting - Focused mainly on protecting the privacy of a user.
• More information - Get much more information than you using a standard engine 🙃

you can also deploy, and create your personal instance. We highly recommend not to share the instance. Most of the search engines will block the IP if it identifies unusual traffic. To know more about MetaSearch Engine refer ryte-wiki

A list of commonly used resources that I find helpful are listed in the acknowledgments.

Instance

For Demo purpose, we deployed this in heroku app : lantern-engine.
As of now we used free plan/tier (since ONLY for DEMO PURPOSE).
For Usage please create your own personal instance.

Built With

List of the major library that is used in these projects.

• Spring Boot
• Lombok
• HttpClient
• jsoup
• json

Getting Started

Currently, We support Web Application developed in angular, To Add/Change Function in WebApplication please refer front-repo

For Installation and Development (back-end), please follow the below steps.

Prerequisites

For building and running the application you need:

• JDK 1.8
• Maven
• Git

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/BalajiDany/lantern-server.git

2. Navigate to the folder

   cd lantern-server

3. Start the application using maven

   # For Mac
   chmod +x mvnw
   ./mvnw spring-boot:run
   
   # For Windows: 
   mvnw spring-boot:run

   • Navigate to http://localhost:8080/lantern

Available Search Engines

• General 🍪
  • Bing
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Google
  • Yahoo
• Torrent 🍺
  • kickass
  • LimeTorrent
  • PirateBay
  • Torrent Finder (PirateBay Proxy)
• Video 🍿
  • Bing Video
  • Google Video
• Code 🍕
  • Stack Overflow (Powered by Google)

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open-source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

Apache-2.0 License - Please have a look at the LICENSE for more details.

Contact

Balaji Dhanapal - d.balaji.mc@gmail.com

Pavithra Palanisamy - pavithrakowsika@gmail.com

Project Link: https://github.com/BalajiDany/lantern-server

Acknowledgements

• GitHub Emoji Cheat Sheet
• Img Shields
• Choose an Open Source License
• GitHub Pages

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