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Dancer-SearchApp-0.06
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/ Dancer::SearchApp

NAME

Dancer::SearchApp - A simple local search engine

SYNOPSIS

QUICKSTART

Also see Dancer::SearchApp::Installation.

  cpanm --look Dancer::SearchApp
  
  # Install prerequisites
  cpanm --installdeps .

  # Install Elasticsearch https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch
  # Start Elasticsearch
  # Install Apache Tika from https://tika.apache.org/download.html into jar/

  # Launch the web frontend
  plackup --host 127.0.0.1 -p 8080 -Ilib -a bin\app.pl

  # Edit filesystem configuration
  cat >>fs-import.yml
  fs:
    directories:
        - folder: "C:\\Users\\Corion\\Projekte\\App-StarTraders"
          recurse: true
          exclude:
             - ".git"
        - folder: "t\\documents"
          recurse: true

  # Collect some content
  perl -Ilib -w bin/index-filesystem.pl -f

  # Search in your browser

CONFIGURATION

Configuration happens through config.yml

  elastic_search:
    home: "./elasticsearch-2.1.1/"
    index: "dancer-searchapp"

The Elasticsearch instance to used can also be passed in %ENV as SEARCHAPP_ES_NODES.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

Dancer::SearchApp

This web front end can serve not only the extracted content but also the original files from your hard disk. Configure the file system crawler to index only data that you are comfortable with sharing with whoever gets access to the web server.

Consider making the web server only respond on requests originating from 127.0.0.1:

  plackup --host 127.0.0.1 -p 8080 -Ilib -a bin\app.pl

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch has a long history of vulnerabilities and has little to no concept of information segregation. This basically means that anything that can reach Elasticsearch can read all the data you stored in it.

Configure Elasticsearch to only respond to localhost or to queries from within a trusted network, like your home network.

Note that leaking a copy of the Elasticsearch search index is almost as bad as leaking a copy of the original data. This is especially true if you look at backups.

REPOSITORY

The public repository of this module is https://github.com/Corion/dancer-searchapp.

SUPPORT

The public support forum of this module is https://perlmonks.org/.

TALKS

I've given a talk about this module at Perl conferences:

German Perl Workshop 2016, German

Video on Youtube, German

YAPC::Europe 2016, Cluj, English

Video on Youtube, English

BUG TRACKER

Please report bugs in this module via the RT CPAN bug queue at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Dancer-SearchApp or via mail to dancer-searchapp-Bugs@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Max Maischein corion@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT (c)

Copyright 2014-2016 by Max Maischein corion@cpan.org.

LICENSE

This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.