Forage running inside browser, added with bookmarklet about norch

[fergiemcdowall]

Nice. V. V. Nice.

[eklem]

Thanks, I'll continue to fill in the blanks (the other tabs) and make some high level sketches/presentations to better explain the overall concept.

[eklem]

Maybe the node-browserify stuff could help ease parts of the task?
https://github.com/substack/node-browserify

[babadofar]

Agree @eklem , it seems to be possible to use browserify for this task. I tried it out this weekend, but my n00bness bit me hard. With browserify you're supposed to be able to replace modules, so for instance the fs module, which deals with the file system can be replaced by https://www.npmjs.org/package/level-fs-browser.
And the level module could be replaced by https://github.com/Level/level-browserify .

[eklem]

@babadofar Have you read https://github.com/substack/browserify-handbook ?

[jure]

This sounds like a very worthy and interesting endeavor. 👍

[eklem]

Thanks @jure ! We've descided to continue working on it. Input, ideas and critique are more than welcome.

[eklem]

@fergiemcdowall Here's a request for some of our ideas on a de-centralised search engine with the index as a torrent: webtorrent/webtorrent#186 (comment)

[eklem]

So, search-index is now browserifiable!
fergiemcdowall/search-index#59
One down, many to go =)

[fergiemcdowall]

It pains to close a bug with so many good ideas and decent sketches, but this is definitely outwith the scope of Norch as a search engine. As you say @eklem search-index is now browserifiable, so toughening and documenting that functionality is the current goal with regards to "norch in browser"

[fergiemcdowall]

Would definitely make a cool project in its own repo.

[mewwts]

+1

2015-01-15 14:54 GMT+01:00 Fergus McDowall [email protected]:

Would definitely make a cool project in its own repo.

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[eklem]

No problem Fergus. Really happy search-index was browserifiable so fast, and that it actually happened! Nice to mock up the idea to make it better. Also, Kimono does the scraping part very well (partly by bookmarklet), so that fixes one step.

And even if closed, it's still documented under closed issues.

[eklem]

Got a minimal version of the indexing-part working over at norch-zapier-bookmarklet. And with norch.io this is bound to happen at some point =)

[eklem]

This one is possible to assemble with nowcontent.xyz pushing to i.e. Sanity.io
or JSONbin.io, and then have this implementation of search-index, but set it to fetch stuff from Sanity/JSONbin.