Seeks is a websearch proxy and collaborative distributed tool for websearch.
Visit http://www.seeks-project.info for more information on the project.
- Content
Seeks code provides:
- a web proxy,
- a websearch meta search engine that aggregates results and ranks them
based on consensus. - a plugin system and a set of default plugins, including websearch and
ad blocking plugins. - a P2P collaborative filter that enables decentralized collaborative
searching and sharing.
- Installation
Dependencies:
- libcurl
- libxml2
- libpcre
- tokyo cabinet
- protocol buffers
- libevent (optional, 2.x preferred)
- opencv (optional)
- docbook2x-man (optionnal)
From the root directory, run
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
Compilation options can be listed with ./configure --help
- Running Seeks
This is an early version of Seeks, it is recommended your run it from the
repository you compiled it from.
cd src
./seeks
see ./seeks --help for options.
For example, by default seeks does not run as a daemon. If you would like
to have it so, run ./seeks --daemon
Other important options can be modified in the configuration file, src/config
By default, seeks runs as proxy on the local machine (127.0.0.1) on port 8250.
If you would like to change it, do it in the configuration file, src/config
Once started, to use seeks, tell your web browser to connect to the Internet
through seeks' web proxy.
- Troubleshooting
Seeks is young, so it is likely there are bugs. However, before all, be
sure to read the faq and user manuals, respectively at:
https://github.com/beniz/seeks/wiki/FAQ
https://github.com/beniz/seeks/wiki/User-Manual
To report bugs, please use the interface here :
https://github.com/beniz/seeks/issues
For discussion and getting more immediate help, join us on irc,
channel #seeks on irc.freenode.net