dumbwebsearch 0.4.0

dumb web interface to search/browse indexed text files

dumb web search

• index a directory of text files in sqlite database
• web browse this directory
• web search this directory with indexed text

how to run

locally

./index.py --docroot /path/to/markdown/dir --database /path/to/database.sqlite index

HTTP_SERVER_BASEURL=/reverse/proxy/subpath HTTP_SERVER_PORT=1234 INDEX_DIR=/path/to/markdown/dir INDEX_DATABASE=/path/to/database.sqlite ./browse.wsgi

in a docker/podman container:

docker run -d -v /path/to/your/markdown/files:/text -v dumbwebsearch-db:/database -e HTTP_SERVER_BASEURL=/reverse/proxy/subpath -p 8000:8000 registry.gitlab.com/hydrargyrum/dumbwebsearch:latest

requirements

• python3
• sqlite to index/search text
• wsgi to expose said app
• jinja2 + bottle as web framework
• pandoc

security

• no authentication: put a reverse proxy in front of it with some login
• no optimization for performance: put a reverse proxy to prevent hammering
• pandoc is run to render markdown files, which may have its own problems

what could be better done

• don't make markdown so much ingrained in this app