You can choose a preferred instance. After choosing what your primary instance is, and performing a search ALL links will open in that instance.
This aims to be a replacement for using site:reddit.com in Google, but just for the fediverse.
You can filter the search results by:
- Instance -- This will filter the results to only show communities that belong to a particular instance. Just type something like instance:lemmy.wrold or instance:https://lemmy.world/. This is separate from your preferred instance, such that you can search for posts on lemmy.world while still opening them on lemmy.ml.
- Community -- You can refine the search by a specific community. You use the same syntax that you'd use here community:[!fediverse@lemmy.world](/c/fediverse@lemmy.world).
- Author -- Similar to the above you can also filter by a specific author such as: author:@marsara9@lemmy.world.
The entire thing is open-source. You can view the code and even host your own instance... See more details here: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search.

NOTE: This only supports Lemmy instances for now. Other fediverse type instances may be in the future depending on how this works out.

I've been working on this over just the last few weeks, so it hasn't had a chance to crawl much of the fediverse yet. For now it only supports lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but other preferred-instances will come online as time goes by.

If anyone finds any bugs, and I'm sure you will, or if anyone has any suggestions PLEASE raise an issue on GitHub for me to track. Lastly, if anyone wants to help contribute please feel free to reach out.

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[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Update: I'm hoping I got the stability issues fixed. I'll know more in the next 24hrs though.

[–] Remontoire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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[–] DankMemeMachine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for this! I was trying to figure out how to best replace the old "site:reddit.com" trick, and it did not quite work with lemmy with how it is federated. I hope that longer term we can get an "all" tab on lemmy that truly tries to pull from as many of the federated sites as possible to get us closer to the Reddit experience. I tried to do some research on extreme heat clothing due to the wet bulb temps in my area but r/mensfashion and most other clothing reddits still seemed private, maybe I can try searching with your solution now.

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, we were probably already due or going on past due for something to best replace the old "site:reddit.com" with "site:lemmy.world" for instance.

[–] imrichyouknow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I would really like to see this get integrated into SearXNG

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

is this a crawler or does it index via mass federation? Or is it using API calls?

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[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The results are different depending on which preferred instance I select. Is that the correct behavior?

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[–] chaorace 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very nice! Have you considered using the lemmyverse.net data for your sitelist instead of finding instances through crawling? You can download the JSON data from the project release page. I've been using their data in my own code and it's very thorough, albeit rather chunky.

[–] Historical_General@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This looks good, I just found an old (3 year old post - I didn't even know Lemmy was around back then!) and commented on it. There were also funnily two other recent comments (one from 2 months ago and another 3 months old).

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can it be made to search in the comments? Right now, I'm finding more results when I use the search function inside lemmy.world than if I use this

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[–] randombit 1 points 2 years ago

Great job! I’m getting errors when clicking on links to lemmy.ml but they work fine with lemmy.world. I recommend not making lemmy.ml the default since that instance has been suffering mightily lately.

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

P.S. to those trying to use a filter, I have a bug that's been discovered: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/issues/13

Long story short, make sure to put your query first and the filter at the end (with no space between the simicolon)

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Still not working for me, my test query (following the example's format) is:

Genshin instance:https://lemmit.online/

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nevermind, found the issue already. I should have a fix uploaded tomorrow. Looks like all instance lookups are failing.

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[–] Quetzacoatl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

make those results sort- and exportable (CSV, JSON, XML or the like), and you could be the new redditsearch.io. especially filtering results by different community/time/author would be great, and sorting by length/upvotes. what was that site with reddit post statistics called again? I know, this all might be further out, and wrangling bugs, the changing API and cloudflare might be more pressing issues, but maybe put it on the feature request list somewhere? all the best, and thank you for making this!

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

There is a public API now. While I won't support sorting, you can process and do what you will with the results as-is. Currently I only support Posts and Communities for now.

When you search for posts you're just matching against the title or body. For communities it's searching the posts within that community.

There's also more filters now with: instance/community/author/since/until and a safe-search option.

So I'm not sure how close this comes to your idea but I thought I'd share.

[–] helloharu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is amazing, nice work! My only criticism at the moment is that on the search results page, the input becomes so squashed that it becomes pointless to use and I’ve gone back to the main screen to redo searches. Giving it its own row, and the search button and drop down their own. should fix that easily.

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