#dev 2024-05-08
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livebay Hi guys, I wanted to know how can I put up a search for my static site
# livebay was looking at this one, but I don't understand how it works (or how to use it)
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# superkuh I recently wrote a perl script using File::Find that tails my webserver's log file for certain GETs ending in .search and nginx location match redirects them to a static generated HTML result page.
# superkuh http://superkuh.com/simple-site-search.pl.txt there is a toggle for just search filenames instead of full text inside documents. But mostly it's just to give you an idea/inspiration.
# superkuh Example, http://superkuh.com/hello/search-log.html
# superkuh No a line of JS required anywhere.
# superkuh Not, rather.
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# livebay superkuh: Thank you for sharing! but I don't understand any of that, sorry
# livebay was looking for the easiest way to do it with my basically zero knowledge of coding
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# [snarfed] livebay try https://indieweb.org/search
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# livebay [snarfed]: thanks! I think maybe I only want the client side search?? the pitchfork uses lunr and it seems to be easier to achieve for me (but I don't even know how to npx :((
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[KevinMarks] Good talk/article from Jeremy on the kinds of design issues we were talking about in Front End Study Hall last night https://adactio.com/articles/21110
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# livebay [Murray]: no, I handcoded html and css and that's basically everything
# [Joe_Crawford] That's terrific [KevinMarks] thanks for sharing. I've been thinking a lot about CSS history with the Front End Study Hall and Jeremy's points about user preference are great.
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capjamesg You can say site:https://example.com in your query and the search will be scoped to that site.
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[aciccarello] Pagefind is a tool you can run on your HTML files to index them and provide search similar to lunar.js https://pagefind.app/
# livebay capjamesg[d]: oh thanks! but I'm looking for client side search
# livebay [aciccarello]: thanks! I tried and it says it cannot find the file, not sure what's the problem
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