Self-hosted projects tagged “Search”

Fusion is a lightweight, self-hosted RSS reader and feed aggregator with search, bookmarks, OPML import/export, and support for RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds.

MITActively maintained

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Feedly+8

Self-hosted translation management platform to collaborate on localization, manage strings, and import/export translation files across common formats.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Crowdin+6

phpBB is an open-source forum (bulletin board) platform in PHP for building and managing community discussion boards with extensible theming and add-ons.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Discourse+8

Self-hosted email archiving system for syncing IMAP and Microsoft 365 mailboxes, indexing content and attachments, and exporting or restoring mailboxes with auditing and retention.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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MailStore Server+3

Self-hosted SERP rank tracker to monitor Google keyword positions, send change notifications, and provide keyword research with Search Console and Ads integrations.

MITActively maintained

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AccuRanker+6

Movim is a federated social platform and web-based XMPP client for blogging, chat, communities, and real-time messaging with a responsive cross‑platform interface.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Element Matrix (Hosted)+15

Swing Music is a fast, self-hosted web music player and streaming server for your local audio files, with playlists, search, stats, and multi-user support.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Spotify+14

RetroShare is a decentralized friend-to-friend platform for encrypted chat, mail, forums, channels and secure file sharing, with optional Tor/I2P support.

Actively maintained

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Telegram+19

Self-hosted email archiving server that syncs from IMAP, stores a local compressed archive, and provides fast full-text search via Web UI and REST API.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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MailStore Server+3

Diskover indexes file systems with Elasticsearch to provide fast file search, metadata analytics, and storage visibility across on-prem, NAS, and cloud storage.

Apache-2.0Slowing down

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Dell EMC DataIQ+16

Self-hosted web app that indexes videos with AI (transcription, vision analysis, embeddings) to enable natural-language search and scene export.

Actively maintained

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Vimeo+5

Self-hosted photo management system for large folder-based libraries with fast full-text search, metadata indexing, and on-device face/object detection.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Google Photos+9

Kubetail is a real-time Kubernetes logging dashboard and CLI that merges multi-container workload logs into a single timeline, running on desktop or inside your cluster.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Datadog Log Management+9

Open-source web app to manage electronic component inventory with projects/BOMs, barcode labels, fine-grained permissions, and powerful search.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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inFlow Inventory+11

Cypht is an open-source PHP/JavaScript webmail and RSS aggregator built from modular plugin sets, unifying multiple accounts with search and server-side filters.

Scalable enterprise search platform supporting full-text, vector, faceted and geospatial search with SolrCloud clustering and a web admin UI.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Algolia+18

Open source headless CMS and real-time graph database with schema tooling, full-text search, tables, documents, files, and SDKs for web apps.

Actively maintained

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Contentful+12

Lightweight self-hosted cloud storage with end-to-end encryption, chunked file transfer, private search, and secure share links via a web UI.

Actively maintained

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Dropbox+15

HTMLy is a fast, databaseless PHP blogging platform and flat-file CMS with built-in search, themes, categories/tags, and an admin dashboard for managing content.

GPL-2.0Slowing down

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WordPress.com+8

sist2 is a fast, low-memory file system indexer with a web UI for searching file contents and metadata, with Elasticsearch or SQLite backends.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)+7

A Python CLI and TUI tool to search and download torrents via Jackett or Prowlarr, using Libtorrent and a modern terminal UI.

Self-hosted private journaling app with mood tracking, prompt-based writing, media uploads, analytics, and powerful search for full data ownership.

Actively maintained

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Day One+8

Websurfx is a self-hostable meta search engine in Rust that aggregates results from multiple sources with a modern UI, caching, filtering, and privacy-focused defaults.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Search+6

Self-hosted open-source web gallery for personal photos and videos with tagging, mobile-friendly UI, face detection, and reverse image search for discovery.

MITActively maintained

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Google Photos+14

Zen is a minimal self-hosted notes app that stores notes as Markdown with a local SQLite database, featuring fast full-text search, tagging, templates, and low resource usage.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Evernote+15

Beatbump is a privacy-respecting alternative frontend for YouTube Music with ad-free audio playback, search, local playlists, and PWA support.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Spotify+5

Fess is an open-source enterprise search server with a built-in crawler, web-based administration, and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch-backed full-text search.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Glean+9

Self-hosted platform for managing cocktail recipes, ingredients inventory, bars, menus, and shopping lists, with powerful filtering, import/export, and an API.

MITActively maintained

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Paprika Recipe Manager+5

A web application that organizes and runs retro game ROMs in the browser with cloud saves, automatic box art, controller support and multi-platform emulation.

MITActively maintained

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Steam+2

Modern, Docker-first self-hosted web file explorer with local users/groups, optional OIDC SSO, fast previews, built-in editor, sharing links, and search.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Dropbox+19