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FSCrawlervsOneSearch

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

FSCrawlerOneSearch
Score27/10039/100
Rank in category#46 of 46 in Document Management#36 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars1 45527
Stars, last 30 days+0+0
Stable releases, 12 months418
Latest releasefscrawler-3.0 · 26 Aug 2026v1.7.1 · 25 Oct 2026
Setup—Moderate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaPython

Which one should you pick?

OneSearch scores 39/100 against 27/100 for FSCrawler, so it is the safer default.

OneSearch ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for FSCrawler.

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