77 possible search engines
Christian Pietsch edited this page 2019-11-28 13:08:57 +01:00

Here we can store sites, which could be useful as engine and waiting for an implementation.
Ideas of search engines can be found here : https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html, there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines, there http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/, and there http://www.metasuchmaschine.org/

and also from there: https://github.com/sebsauvage/rss-bridge (generate rss-feeds for different sites)

Also this list of publicly available APIs may be of use: https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis

General

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
http://yippy.com metasearch engine
https://search.disconnect.me/ provide results from ddg, bing or yahoo
https://dogpile.com/ provide results from google and yahoo
http://webcrawler.com/ provide results from google and yahoo
http://exalead.com/search/ has spam protection with captcha
https://izsearch.com/ https://izsearch.com/api.html Privacy focused, clean from the Ads and Spam web search engine.
https://millionshort.com/ Search engine that allows you to filter and refine your search results set.
https://www.mojeek.com/ https://mojeek.com/services/api.html Independent and unbiased engine.
https://oscobo.co.uk/ A engine created for protecting your privacy.
https://jivesearch.com/ A search engine that doesn't track you. Uses Yandex API.
https://searchpal.com/ A Safe Search Engine that blocks harmful and offensive traffic.
https://beta.cliqz.com/ Searx integration suggested by Cliqz CEO. They might provide an API if desired. A quick search engine from Germany, financed by Burda.

Files

Note: https://torrentz2.is/help#indexed show what torrent engines could be implemented

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
http://bitcq.com not available torrent meta-search engine, more efficient than torrentz
http://burnbit.com is a metasearch-engine for files for which it provides torrents of
http://bitsnoop.com http://bitsnoop.com/info/api.html currently, I can not open that website ( 15 Dec 2014)
http://www.torrentdownloads.me nothing found
http://www.torrentreactor.net nothing found
http://www.limetorrents.cc nothing found
http://www.filespump.net e-Books
http://www.filewatcher.com
http://www.general-ebooks.com e-Books - of general-world.com

Files (Apps)

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
https://apkpure.com/ Android
http://appmarketapk.com/ Android
http://cydia.saurik.com/ iOS

Files (HTTP)

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
http://del.icio.us using operators
http://www.google.com using operators

Images

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
http://photobucket.com/ nothing official found
http://pixabay.com/ http://pixabay.com/api/docs/ ~250.000 free photos
http://findicons.com http://findicons.com/api ~450.000 free icons
https://www.iconfinder.com/ https://www.iconfinder.com/about/api ~350.000 icons
http://www.iconspedia.com/ nothing found free icons
https://openclipart.org/
www.panoramio.com/
http://www.flaticon.com/ free icons
http://www.freeimages.com/ ~388.000 free photos

Music

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
https://www.jamendo.com https://developer.jamendo.com/v3.0
https://bandcamp.com/ https://bandcamp.com/developer
http://wikibit.me Meta engine. Very hard to find what is useful and what is not
http://ccmixter.org/
http://www.myfreemp3x.com/
http://www.audiopoisk.com
http://butt-vibe.com may be related to mp3vampire.com
http://mp3bear.to
http://mp3-center.net
https://mp3skull.is
http://muzoferma.com/
http://vmp3.eu
http://xmusic.me
http://del.icio.us using operators
http://www.google.com using operators, similarly to Singingfish
http://www.blinkx.com find a/v snippets from quotes

News

site-url api-doc (if available) comments

Videos

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
http://www.myvideo.de/ nothing found
http://www.metacafe.com nothing found
http://wikibit.me
http://blip.tv/
http://del.icio.us using operators
http://www.google.com using operators, similarly to Singingfish
http://www.blinkx.com find a/v snippets from quotes
https://invidio.us https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/wiki/API An alternative front-end to YouTube.

Map

site-url api-doc (if available) comments

IT

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
http://opensearch.krugle.org/

Science

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
http://www.pnas.org/ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
http://worldwidescience.org science search engine
https://cdsweb.cern.ch CERN Document Server
https://arxiv.org
https://www.findlectures.com/
https://www.scienceopen.com/search
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.ESearch Search engine for MEDLINE database

Other

site-url api-doc (if available) comments
http://www.imdb.com/ internet movie data base
http://www.blinkx.com find a/v snippets from quotes
http://octopart.com http://octopart.com/api/home electronic parts
http://europeana.eu/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
https://archive.org/
http://openweathermap.org/ http://openweathermap.org/api
http://www.manualslib.com manuals library
http://www.pipl.com/ http://dev.pipl.com/io-docs
http://www.shodanhq.com/ security vulnerability search engine
https://censys.io/ device search engine
https://www.aftership.com/ https://www.aftership.com/docs/api/4 package tracker
https://wiki.gentoo.org Gentoo wiki
https://db.satnogs.org https://db.satnogs.org/api/ satellite db (with available rf devices)
http://spaceapi.net status and informations about hackerspaces
http://www.navitia.io public transport API
https://github.com/golastmile/rasa_nlu can parse "show me a mexican place in the centre"
https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/API food products
https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/ https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/API/OpenBeautyFacts cosmetics and hygiene products
https://world.openpetfoodfacts.org/ https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/API#Sister_projects pet food products
https://world.openproductsfacts.org/ https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/API#Sister_projects other products