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.