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Grep.app, a GitHub code search engine to search for code patterns and examples (grep.app)
4 points by hackerpain on Nov 28, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


works very fast!

is the app opensource and available for self-hosting ?

where are you pulling git repos from ?

are results from latest commits or you have some cached versions ?

is the app opensource and available for self-hosting ?


Hey,

Seems like the app isn't open source. But they are apparently having a Big Dataset of scraped Github content as GitHub API provides limited search operations with rate limiting.

But here's the API -> https://grep.app/api/search?q=test, you are going to parse hits > hits > [0:9] > content from the JSON.

Also I feel they are simply using BigQuery or, BigQuery data sets on the backend.

Cheers


thanks for info!




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