multi-search

A search interface to search in multiple search engines with one search query. For example to compare the different result positions.

About

The project is about a small REST-API, which can be used to search with multiple search engines at the same time. At the moment the route /search/?serchQuery=Test can be used to search for a query and the ranking from the different search engines can be compared:

    {
        "total": 10,
        "limit": 10,
        "skip": 0,
        "data": [
            [
                {
                    "link": "https://www.test.de/",
                    "displayLink": "www.test.de",
                    "title": "Stiftung Warentest",
                    "searchEngineName": "Google"
                },
                {
                    "link": "https://www.test.de/",
                    "displayLink": "https://www.test.de",
                    "title": "Stiftung Warentest - Aktuell auf test.de",
                    "searchEngineName": "Bing"
                }
            ],
            ...
        ]
    }

In the current state the search engines the following search engines are available: Google, Bing. It's easily possible to add additional search engines.

This project uses Feathers. An open source web framework for building modern real-time applications.

Getting Started

Getting up and running is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Make sure you have NodeJS and npm installed.

2. Install your dependencies

   cd path/to/multi-search
   npm install
   

3. Copy the config/local.json.dist to config/local.json and add the needed config options for the search engines.

4. Start your app

   npm start
   

Testing

Simply run npm test and all your tests in the test/ directory will be run.