Scratch Search [Open source]

Arqwa

Hello everyone!
I'm creating an open source project to search the entire Scratch site as we could do with the 2.0 version of the Scratch search engine. Search on the Wiki, the forum, users… To create a place where you can find things more easily.
For this I use a Google base with the custom search engine but I will also create my site in html/CSS to present everything and provide the search categories. I would like to put them on a bar on the left side of my page to have a global visibility or maybe put them like on Scratch…

I think I need your ideas because if I have those of all I could create something even more adapted and unique. I also need to know your questions to answer them later easily and of course to know the bugs you encounter to understand and solve them.

If others could bring me knowledge on how to use the images stored on Scratch, for example if you search for my username “Arqwa” that you see my profile picture …

1. First version

2. Second version

3. Third version

I hope you can help me, the project can be used but there are bugs in the latest version which is available here. You can otherwise use the old version available here.
For use you must :

Go to the repositoy on Github
Copy the html text
Paste on a Note application
Save in .html
Open in your browser

Thanks you very much !

8bitjake

Arqwa wrote:
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I hope you can help me, the project can be used but there are bugs in the latest version which is available here. You can otherwise use the old version available here.
For use you must :
Go to the repositoy on Github
Copy the html text
Paste on a Note application
Save in .html
Open in your browser

This sounds like a very cool project! How long have you been working on this?!

Arqwa

8bitjake wrote:
Arqwa wrote:
*snip*
I hope you can help me, the project can be used but there are bugs in the latest version which is available here. You can otherwise use the old version available here.
For use you must :
Go to the repositoy on Github
Copy the html text
Paste on a Note application
Save in .html
Open in your browser
This sounds like a very cool project! How long have you been working on this?!

Thanks so much !
I had previously created a similar site using facilities and a site editor… but now I've learned text programming languages to create more with more options. Now I'm on this project and in truth I've only spent a total of 8 hours to do this, I don't think it's a lot. I did use google help as specified and therefore a facility even if I added code in the search system.

CST1229

Suggestion: You could put this on a GitHub Pages page. It's free and all it requires is a repository, although you can only have one website repository.

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Arqwa

CST1229 wrote:
Suggestion: You could put this on a GitHub Pages page. It's free and all it requires is a repository, although you can only have one website repository.

I tried but I didn't succeed, it didn't tell me there was a problem but the page never loaded with my site. I'll try again when I've made an even more advanced version with more search functions… Thanks !

CST1229

Arqwa wrote:
CST1229 wrote:
Suggestion: You could put this on a GitHub Pages page. It's free and all it requires is a repository, although you can only have one website repository.
I tried but I didn't succeed, it didn't tell me there was a problem but the page never loaded with my site. I'll try again when I've made an even more advanced version with more search functions… Thanks !

On my site, the site didn't load up unless I put in /index.html. I fixed it by making a readme.md file and putting this in it:

permalink: /index.html

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TeamDAB_Official

You should ask @World_Languages if you can add this to his extension, it would be a gread addition!

I'm moving accounts to @9gr

Arqwa

TeamDAB_Official wrote:
You should ask @World_Languages if you can add this to his extension, it would be a gread addition!

Good idea but later, I don't think I'm done, it lacks main functions and a real interface and there are still a lot of bugs to solve. On top of that I don't see how it could be put in the extension and in what form… we have to be careful too because we don't have to say an extension name, thanks

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jemunm

I have seen multiple people already make something like this.

Nice

Arqwa

Announcement 1.0 version

Hi there! I've been working on a better interface for the Scratch Search project, something simpler and with more effect on usage. I'm just redoing the Scratch Search bar in css and I'm left with something harder.
For now, the old versions of Scratch Search urilize Google and that's what I'd like to change, using our own system, it will be much more customizable. The problem is that I don't know very well programming languages to search sites, import data… I know that php can do it but also other programming languages, if you know how to program in these languages or you want to help, don't hesitate.
For information, our “search engine” for Scratch is not like the others already done, it offers a user interface with more functions and soon even more functions with version 1.0.

Small view of version 1.0, unfinished version, coming soon

Last edited by Arqwa (Feb. 20, 2021 18:22:29)

Felix_56

Attends du coup tu veux faire ton propre système de recherche pour Scratch ? (désolé je viens d'arriver sur ce topic)

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Arqwa

Felix_56 wrote:
Attends du coup tu veux faire ton propre système de recherche pour Scratch ? (désolé je viens d'arriver sur ce topic)

Try to speak in English on the English-speaking forum, maybe you saw that everything that was written was in English? It doesn't matter for this time. To answer your question, yes I will create, I started, a search system for Scratch and in priority for the forums where we could sort the search results according to the category of the forum… For the moment I use Google but we can't personalize enough and I'm learning php to make something better.

9gr

I might help with the development of this, but are you planning to use your own servers?

site

Arqwa

9gr wrote:
I might help with the development of this, but are you planning to use your own servers?

No, well I don't know… I don't know much about it, please volunteer to help. Although I'm learning php I'm better at doing the user interface and I had already done it. What programming languages do you know? Thanks!

ninjaMAR

You could use replit for hosting

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9gr

Arqwa wrote:
9gr wrote:
I might help with the development of this, but are you planning to use your own servers?
No, well I don't know… I don't know much about it, please volunteer to help. Although I'm learning php I'm better at doing the user interface and I had already done it. What programming languages do you know? Thanks!

i code with node.js and use html, mostly a web dev

site

9gr

anyways, this is already on github pages

site

Arqwa

9gr wrote:
anyways, this is already on github pages

Oh yes! Thanks for the link I had tried to host but I thought I failed, it's an old version where there are no shortcuts to posts and projects but it's already good. Thanks also for offering your help (@9gr and @ninjaMAR), I think we can make a search system in JavaScript. I'm going to change my mind, I only know a little bit about this language…

dertermenter

What design are you going towards? I like the 2nd one

Thoughts on AFD on the forums

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All suggestions are unnecessary. If a suggestion is necessary then it's a bug report.

dertermenter wrote:
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Arqwa

dertermenter wrote:
What design are you going towards? I like the 2nd one

I think I will keep this design, I find it quite clean, it keeps the main design rules of Scratch but is quite original and I like that. I will add icons for the “Messages” and to access the “My projects” page. I don't think this was the version you preferred? And why do you like another one better? Thank you for sharing your opinion, I made the base of the site it misses more than the search engine which does not use Google ^^.

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