Goosle
Version 1.7.1
Goosle is a fast, privacy oriented search tool that just works.
It's kept simple so everyone can use it and to make sure it works on most webservers.
If you're looking for more varied results that are not laced with AI results and other non-features most people do not care for. Or if you're simply looking for traditional results from more than one search engine, Goosle has your back! Goosle searches on several search engine at the same time and shows you the most relevant results through a neat, clean interface. Goosle has no ads or sponsored results, no distractions, no trackers, no cookies and no bloated libraries, frameworks, dependencies or other things that slow you down.
Goosle does Image and News search. Collecting information from various sources and also shown in a simple easy to use manner.
On top of that, Goosle provides a safe and clean Magnet Link search tab along with a Box Office page. Find any torrent you like in seconds without malware, ads or other browser-breaking dangers that would otherwise require a VPN to safely use Torrent sites. Results are sourced from some of the largest torrent providers, compiled and ordered by the most seeders.
Host for yourself and friends, with a access hash key. Or set up a public search website.
After-all, finding things should be easy and not turn into a chore.
What Goosle does not have.
And yet it just works... fast!
If you like Goosle, or found a use for it, please support my work and donate and tell everyone about its existence.
Any basic webserver/webhosting package with PHP7.4 or newer.
No special requirements other than APCu for caching (Optional).
Developed on Apache with PHP8.2.
Take a look at the changelog for every update here.
For a number of background tasks like clearing up the file cache and/or renewing your Openverse access token you need to set up a cronjob.
Execute this cronjob a couple of times per day, recommended is every 8 hours.
Without it, Openverse access will expire and you have to generate a new key every few hours.
For low traffic setups or if you do not use Openverse a longer interval of once a day is fine.
The access hash is always required as an access token, don't forget to include ?a=YOUR_HASH to the url.
Cron jobs are commonly set up from your hosting dashboard, or through something like DirectAdmin, cPanel or WHM.
Ask your hosting provider where to find the Cron job scheduler or have them set it up for you if you don't see it.
You can also use something like cron-job.org to trigger the background task remotely.
To test, you can also load the url in your browser and trigger the script that way. Look for the onscreen prompts to see what routines are executed.
Example for 10 minutes past every 3 hours
10 */3 * * * wget -qO - https://example.com/goosle-cron.php?a=YOUR_HASH
Example for 5 minutes past every 8 hours (I use this on my Goosle)
5 */8 * * * wget -qO - https://example.com/goosle-cron.php?a=YOUR_HASH
Example for every midnight
0 0 * * * wget -qO - https://example.com/goosle-cron.php?a=YOUR_HASH
Why a few minutes past the hour? Because most people run stuff exactly on the hour or some other predictable interval like 15 or 30 minutes. Running things a few minutes offset helps spread server load.
Openverse image search provides (mostly) royalty free images.
Millions of high quality photos from photographers from all over the world.
If you're into high quality photo backgrounds, need images for blogs and articles or just like to look at high-res anything, then Openverse is a useful engine to use.
Check out Openverse here: https://www.openverse.com
To use Openverse Image Search you'll need to register Goosle for an oAUTH access token.
Goosle includes a oAuth routine to easily register for an access token.
This procedure generates an access token which is stored in /cache/token.data, this token expires every 12 hours. Yeah, annoying!
To automatically renew the token you can set up the Goosle cronjob as described elsewhere in this readme.
Pixabay is a high quality photo and illustration database with (generally) royalty-free images.
Pixabay has a database of hundreds of thousands of images provided by Photographers from all over the world.
If you're a content creator who regularly need images for blogs and articles or just like to look at high-res photography, Pixabay is for you.
To get image results from Pixabay you'll need a free account to get a free API key.
Register an account here: https://pixabay.com (Click the Join button in the top right)
Once registered and logged in, you can find your API key in the Documentation here: https://pixabay.com/api/docs/, look for the first parameter specification (looks like a list), the Key will be highlighted in green at the top of it. Copy this key to your config.php into the pixabay_api_key option.
You can post your questions on Github Discussions or say hi on Mastodon or through my website.
