Search Cluster (Industrial Standard v3.1)

A multi-provider search aggregator designed for high-availability and security.

Installation

The scrapling provider requires a dedicated virtual environment.

• Create a venv: python3 -m venv venv/scrapling
• Install scrapling: venv/scrapling/bin/pip install scrapling
• Provide the path to the venv binary in SCRAPLING_PYTHON_PATH.

Security Posture

• Subprocess Isolation: Query inputs are passed as arguments to stealth_fetch.py.
• Strict TLS: Mandatory SSL verification on all providers.
• Sanitization: Integrated native internal scrubber (Path Neutral).

Requirements and Environment

Declare these variables in your environment or vault:

Variable	Requirement	Description
GOOGLE_API_KEY	Optional	API Key for Google Custom Search.
GOOGLE_CSE_ID	Optional	Search Engine ID for Google CSE.
SCRAPLING_PYTHON_PATH	Optional	Path to the scrapling venv python binary.
REDIS_HOST	Optional	Host for result caching.
REDIS_PORT	Optional	Port for result caching (Default: 6379).
SEARCH_USER_AGENT	Optional	Custom User-Agent string.

Providers

• google: Official Google Custom Search.
• wiki: Wikipedia OpenSearch API.
• reddit: Reddit JSON search API.
• gnews: Google News RSS aggregator.
• scrapling: Headless stealth scraping (via DuckDuckGo).

Included Scripts

• scripts/search-cluster.py: Main entry point.
• scripts/stealth_fetch.py: Scrapling fetcher (REQUIRED for scrapling provider).

Workflow

• Execute: scripts/search-cluster.py all ""
• Output is structured JSON with source, title, link, and sanitized snippet.