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What’s the best search engine for lemmy? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not talk to the instance admins directly and ask for their database dumps (minus the user accounts table and DMs) so you can ingest it into your search index? You're doing this for the benefit of the fediverse, right? I'm sure most instance admins would help you if you ask (and it's easier on their servers too because your scraper aren't bombarding their server), I know I would, tough my instance only have 2 users right now so it'll probably useless to index. This should take care the historical data problem, and you can use activitypub for obtaining new data going forward without scraping the instances.