YaCy

A free, decentralized search engine built on peer-to-peer principles. Crawls the web, indexes content, and delivers search results without any central server dependency. Run your own search engine with full data sovereignty.

What You Can Do After Deployment

1. Visit your domain — access the YaCy search interface
2. Start crawling — configure web crawling targets from the admin panel
3. Search — query your indexed content via the search interface
4. Join the P2P network — connect to other YaCy peers for distributed search
5. Admin panel — manage crawlers, indexing, and network settings at /ConfigBasic.html
6. API access — use the search API for programmatic queries

Key Features

• Decentralized P2P search engine
• Web crawling and content indexing
• Full-text search with ranking
• Admin panel for crawler management
• Peer-to-peer network for distributed search
• No central server dependency
• Built-in embedded storage (Solr)

License

GPL-2.0 — GitHub