Self-host searchmysite.net
v1.4.34Independent search engine for personal websites
- Stars
- 140
- Port
- 8080 (Web interface (Apache httpd))
- Requires
- Apache Solr, PostgreSQL, TorchServe
What is searchmysite.net?
An independent search engine for personal websites and the small web. It runs a public blog search indexing approved sites, plus an embeddable site search tool. The platform is ad-free, privacy-first, and open source under AGPL-3.0. It uses Apache Solr, PostgreSQL, Scrapy, and TorchServe with an LLM. Users can self-host via Docker Compose with separate containers for web, search, database, indexer, and models. The hosted service offers free Basic and paid Full listings.
Should you self-host searchmysite.net?
searchmysite.net scores 44/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #33 of 41 in Search Engines. It has 140 GitHub stars.
It shipped 10 stable releases in the past year. The latest, v1.4.34, came out on 18 October 2026. New versions land roughly every 2 days.
Setup is advanced: plan for several services and some ongoing maintenance. It is AGPL-3.0-licensed and written mostly in Python.
Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is SearXNG (86/100, 38 940 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See searchmysite.net vs SearXNG side by side.
Features
- Ad-free and privacy-first
- Admin moderation
- AI content detection
- Blog search engine
- Bulk site import
- LLM-powered content analysis
- Relevancy tuning
- Search API
- Web crawling and indexing
- Website search tool
searchmysite.net README
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