HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
amirgamil
apollo
Go2021–2022
amirgamil / apollo

apollo

A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.4KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint.

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-07-26 16:09:44 UTC to 2022-01-27 11:13:33 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJul 262021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 252021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 24

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 262021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC211
Aug 22021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 92021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 162021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 232021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 302021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 62021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 132021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 202021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 272021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 42021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 112021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 182021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 252021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 12021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 82021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 152021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 222021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 292021-11-29 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 62021-12-06 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 132021-12-13 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 202021-12-20 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 272021-12-27 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 32022-01-03 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 102022-01-10 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 172022-01-17 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 242022-01-24 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-31 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
The code is here: https://github.com/diegov/searchbox But don't let its attempt at a friendly README fool you, it's personal-grade software of "works-on-my-machine", and barely, quality. If you want to look at something more polished, I think https://github.com/amirgamil/apollo and https://github.com/thesephist/monocle are worth taking a look. Also there's the https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI library, which you could build on, though it mainly relies on data dumps from the different services instead of crawling and fetching through APIs, which is why I didn't use it. Keeping up with API changes is bad enough, I don't want to deal with undocumented dump formats...
In How I centralize and distribute my bookmarks
I’ve seen a handful of this kind of “Google, but only for things I’ve seen before” app. I think it’s something the world needs, but there are a lot of different approaches and I don’t think anyone has quite nailed it. Ultimately the best solutions will likely use many different cataloging strategies depending on the content, and will allow you to tag or otherwise organize important content. Funny enough if I had such an app I could make a list of 4 or 5 examples, but right now can only find one: https://github.com/amirgamil/apollo I remember seeing one posted to HN that used the browser API to essentially dump websites you visit to disk. There’s also bookmarking and archiving tools like: https://pinboard.in/ https://unmark.it/ https://www.linkace.org/ https://archivy.github.io/ https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence https://perkee
Read the rest
In APSE – A Personal Search Engine

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.