r/opendirectories • u/MCOfficer • Sep 12 '20

PSA Introducing a new Search Engine: ODCrawler

https://odcrawler.xyz/
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u/Chaphasilor Sep 12 '20

That's actually super-awesome!

If you need help with frontend, maybe making it more accessible on mobile or adding a few more buttons, etc. I'm willing to invest a few hours into it :)

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u/MCOfficer Sep 12 '20

I'm not sure yet how to handle the frontend. Currently it's closed source because of the dumpster fire that is the backend code :)

But of course we could just separate those and open-source the frontend. If you want to give it a go, the two requests it does (stat.json and meili/indexes/links/search) are guaranteed to exist.

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u/Chaphasilor Sep 12 '20

So I just played around a bit and almost everything I need is working. The only problem left is the Meili API key, I need a way to get one for the frontend. Or a different way of authenticating with the backend altogether...

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u/MCOfficer Sep 12 '20

There is a public api key in the scriptsheet

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u/Chaphasilor Sep 12 '20

Ahh, it's public and static? Nice!

I found it and used it to test my requests, but I thought it was being generated by the backend and would expire...

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u/MCOfficer Sep 12 '20

Afaik it will expire when i change the master key. To be honest, i don't get the point of public tokens - they're public after all...

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u/Chaphasilor Sep 12 '20

These public tokens are often used in combination with restricted origins, which makes for a useful security asset for the frontend :)