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FediCrawl
Collect feeds to follow on Fediverse nodes.
App crawls from node to node (starting from the seed node) and searches for feeds (accounts or channels) and for other peered nodes.
Discovered nodes are added to database and are queued for next search. New nodes are processed preferentially. If there is no new node, data of oldest node are refreshed.
Node data are retrieved using node info api.
Node's public feeds and peering nodes are retrieved only on several supported softwares using thier's public APIs.
Supported Fediverse software
For now only two fediverse apps are supported:
Data providers for more apps will be probably added soon (Pull requests are welcomed)
Config
Configuration is done using environmental variables:
| Variable | Description | Value example |
|---|---|---|
POSTGRES_URL |
Postgres database uri | postgresql://fedisearch:passwd@postgres:5432/fedisearch?schema=public |
SEED_NODE_DOMAIN |
Domain of the first node to search users and other nodes on | mastodon.social |
Deploy
App is designed to be run in docker container and deployed using docker-compose. More info can be found in FediSearch example docker-compose project
For searching in collected feeds there is a companion server app FediSearch