Open Source Search Engines

Torrent Search is a cross-platform application, allowing to search for torrent files on different websites. Supported websites are integrated through plugins, which allows to easily extend the number of websites supported.

A torrent search engine plugin for the Azureus/Vuze bittorrent platform.

This is an ***old archive*** of tools developed for facilitating the use of Creative Commons licenses and metadata. --- For the most up to date representation of any of the projects listed here, please see: http://creativecommons.org/project/Developer.

PAD stands for Portable Application Description. PAD is an XML-based open format to describe downloadable applications. By using the PAD system, developers save time by having to create a description of their software packages only once.

A universal platform for resource discovery and description that shares XML meta-data over existing peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella and JXTA.

BTfind allows simultaneous searching on private trackers and combine their results. It's a metasearch engine developed for peers, by peers.

Torrent search utility.

WebNap is a PHP Napster client that allows you to search and download songs from a Napster/Opennap/MyNapster or compatible servers using a web-browser.

An PHP + MySQL script that attempts to recreate features similar to the likes of Mininova, SeedPeer, and TPB frontend. Features a new design, crawling ability, cURL for single torrent scrapes + mass scrapes, and much much more! Based on T-Xore 0.4, Ibitz

Cross-platform searchable CD-ROM. Vicaya is a search engine and indexing tool for use on a local file system or CDROM, written in Java and based on Apache Nutch, and Tomcat. The goal is to replicate a website on a CD-ROM to be used on any platform.

The Alpine Network is a peer based application and network infrastructure designed for distributed resouce location, including file/data transfer. Alpine attempts to resolve the distributed search/sharing problem using an efficient messaging system.

Catalog module for creating FTP server support website. Search engine for Files located on FTP sites or in other collections submitted to this catalog. It is oriented for Audio Books in mp3 format collections. Use PHP, Java & database MySQL or Oracle.

An automated client developed for downloading sequenced files.

Cubit is an Azureus plugin that enables decentralized, approximate keyword search of torrents within the Azureus client. It provides accurate and useful results even with errors in the search terms, stemming from typos and common spelling variations.

BTIT++ is an improvement on the base BTIT tracker engine. It includes many user submitted contributions & bug fixes, as well as many new features. BTIT++ is based on the latest SVN code of BTIT 1.x.x & 2.x

BTPastry is a torrent search engine, base on pastry p2p network. It easy to use, search and share your torrent files. DEMO rendezvous peer is btpastry.getmyip.com:5050

A tool which allows you to download all erotic images and videos hosted on popular image hosting sites tagged with a given tag without clicking you through the web interface. ,,java bayimg yourtag'' is enought.

Brain Net. A Distributed Search Engine Network. Aims to be a scalable distributed search engine allowing dynamic connection of nodes. Performance depends on bandwidth.

Buzzsearch is a Perl and MySQL based SMB/FTP search engine that originated at Georgia Tech. It should run on any UNIX machine with Samba, however I have only tested it on Linux.

Cicerone is a multi-platform, multi-server, multi-database, web-based corporate information system like no other. Completely web-driven and accessible through any 4.x web browser, Cicerone allows your company to create and maintain information on the fly

Open xml-based peer-to-peer movement to expose source code via the web without limitation or reliance on any particular server(s).

DBTV V3 - Your television episode and series torrent search and downloader! Note: This is just a spare time, zero profit project. If anyone is interested in donating to allow me to spend more time fixing things sooner, you can visit here; https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FV2KMDSJXMSAN DBTV is a TV Torrent Downloader! Scans your tv show folder and lists your shows. Looks up and downloads torrents for newer (or older) tv shows. (Use a torrent program to actually download the video files) Auto mode to minimize clicking when getting successive files. Should work on Windows XP or higher, 32 or 64 bit. It also seems to work on Linux with WINE (tested on Linux Mint), provided you double click instead of right click. Your mileage may vary, compatibility can be looked into if there was interest. Donations help me get interested faster. Programmed in Autohotkey by Colin Glover - colinglover.com

DCTViewer is a robust web based solution, sponsored by Document Conversions Technology, http://docconversions.com , for digital document searching and viewing in an intranet enviroment. Features include document storage, indexing, searching and viewing,

DocLib is a Web-based Document Management System implemented in ASP .NET technology to facilitate documents finding in Full Text Search, Directory Browsering, Search by document summary,by Catagory/Attribute , and by Virtual Directory.

A simple search engine for LANs. Indexes files in shares over FTP and SMB protocols and provides the ability to search for certain files in this index.