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Looking for a self hosted, web search trends monitor. I have looked at Plausible Analytics, OpenSearch, Matomo, and some other website analytics platforms, but I'm not necessarily wanting to monitor a specific website(s). Rather, I want to monitor what people are searching for on the internet.

Is such a thing possible?

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[–] cmc@lemmy.cleberg.net 2 points 1 day ago

It's possible, but I can't find any existing solutions that solve this need.

The best possible data for this will come from the big search engine's APIs (e.g., Google, Bing) due their global reach and massive data storage capabilities.

If you truly want to self-host something, I'd suggest looking into setting up a simple pipeline from one of those (or multiple) APIs to a self-hosted data store (e.g., Elastic, Postgres) and write up some simple scripts that will let you search at-will like you would with Google Trends.