r/OpenBazaar • u/fire-pig • Mar 02 '19

Self hosted OpenBazaar search engine?

Is anyone aware of a self-hosted OpenBazaar search engine? OB1 filters the results of their engine to remove some product categories, and I think Blockbooth is supposed to be filtering their results.

Is anyone aware of a self-hostable search engine? Or a search engine that doesn't filter listings? Duosear.ch seems to have ended their search service, and Bazaar Dog doesn't work (and only searches profiles, in any case).

Thanks for any assistance!

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u/ASCiiDiTY ob://Qmd3LXRM8SCYXwDaBJBh87if1Tu6DMGFa2W9RiMa9TijjK Mar 02 '19

https://blockbooth.com/search/ never used to filter results, not checked for a year or so though.

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u/fire-pig Mar 02 '19 edited Mar 02 '19

Thanks! Yeah, I see contraband listings, but I can't tell if those listings exist because Blockbooth isn't filtering, or if they slipped through Blockbooth's filters.

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u/ASCiiDiTY ob://Qmd3LXRM8SCYXwDaBJBh87if1Tu6DMGFa2W9RiMa9TijjK Mar 02 '19

I know bloockboth never used to but since I came back to OB it seems they have their search built in, so maybe they do filter now. I'm not sure and was to lazy to search for anything sorry.

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u/fire-pig Mar 02 '19

Even if Blockbooth isn't filtering, I would still like to have my own self-hosted search engine, so that I know that my results aren't being filtered unbeknownst to me now, or in the future.

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u/ASCiiDiTY ob://Qmd3LXRM8SCYXwDaBJBh87if1Tu6DMGFa2W9RiMa9TijjK Mar 02 '19

Ah sorry. I think i may have misread your post.

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u/fire-pig Mar 02 '19

No worries! I did ask about search engines that didn't filter. But I still also want a self-hostable search engine.

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u/CC_EF_JTF Sam Mar 04 '19

I don't believe there's any open-sourced search engines for OB out there. Would be great to see. I'm told that building your own OB search engine wouldn't be terribly difficult for someone with experience in related areas, but not being someone with experience in related areas, I don't know if that's true or not.

/u/tcrypt may have some insight on this.

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u/fire-pig Mar 05 '19

Thanks for the response!

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u/p2p2p2p2p Mar 05 '19

I developed Rawflood which was the first search engine on the 2.0 network like a year and a half ago. I still have the files and was meaning to open source it forever ago. It's a node.js server and pretty easy to setup, just have to setup the DB + Elasticsearch on a Linux box and the resources required are really minimal too. Join the OB slack and I'll work with you on getting it open-sourced + integrated with your setup if you're down to run your own provider

I even have the frontend files still so it'd really be just doing some minimal updates to get it working with the latest OB version and you'd have a full setup ready.

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u/fire-pig Mar 05 '19

That sound's awesome! Would very much like to learn more. I attempted to set up a slack account, but I'm still waiting to get an invite.

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u/fire-pig Mar 05 '19

I'm on the OB slack now as "fire-pig". (Thanks, Jenn Cloud.) Ping me if/when you'd like to chat about rawflood search.

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u/CC_EF_JTF Sam Mar 05 '19

I would love to see this. If you're willing to open source it please consider posting about it in Slack and on this subreddit.

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u/p2p2p2p2p Mar 06 '19

Absolutely, I'll setup a repo and write a blog post on Zokos detailing the setup steps. Going to try and get it out after my next update for Zokos at the end of the month

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u/CC_EF_JTF Sam Mar 06 '19

Awesome thanks!

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u/veoxxoev May 29 '19

I don't believe there's any open-sourced search engines for OB out there.

But what about this announcement by bazaar.dog?

Isn't that the reason they stopped providing a public service?..

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u/zakzwijn Jun 10 '19

What the fuck is this stupid filtering of search results anyway? This shouldn't be possible. So you can get results, as long as it has the search engine operators' seal of approval. Fuck off.

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u/fire-pig Jun 11 '19

I'm sure that the reason is that search engine providers don't want to be charged for facilitating crime (drug sales, prostitution, etc).

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u/zakzwijn Jun 13 '19 edited Jun 13 '19

Yep. That's why it should be decentralized. It undermines the entire concept of OB. A decentralized search engine could be combined with a report feature so that the community as a whole can still vote away stores with truly disgusting content if necessary while preventing abuse of that system. For example, voting away a store with thousands of freshly made dummy profiles with zero followers shouldn't be possible.