open sourcing scene search with sola
Added 2018-05-01 16:58:09 +0000 UTCThe last piece of puzzle in whatanime.ga has published.
The whatanime repository on GitHub has gain lot of developers' attention. However, it only include the code for the website and is not a fully functional system. Some of them are puzzled when they try to look into the code.
Last month, I've re-written those messy scripts into a new project - sola.
This include all the scripts that whatanime.ga currently used to put mp4 video files into solr for search. It has been running for a month, so this should be stable enough to publish. sola is not limited to searching anime, any types of video (like movies, TV shows) can also be indexed. It does not depends on whatanime and anilist, the only dependeny is liresolr. So users that doesn't need anime info and web UI can avoid those complexities.
sola is a node.js app. Many developers would feel easy to read and modify the code. Hopefully this would encourage contribution to the project. It has just ~700 lines of code in total. For developers that doesn't like Javascript (or would like to avoid GPLv3), it's not difficult to rewrite the whole thing.
I've written a setup guide for developers to easily setup their own video scene search engine. Spread the news to developers and let them try!
https://github.com/soruly/sola
