Sosse
Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.
Developed outside the platforms our data source measures, so there is no activity history to score. This says nothing about the project — many unrated projects are actively maintained.
Activity data
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| Stars | not measured |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | 24 Mar 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Python, Docker |
Is Sosse actively maintained?
We cannot measure this one. Sosse is developed outside the platforms our data source collects activity from, and its repository lives at gitlab.com — so there is no commit history or release cadence here to score.
Read that as missing data, not as a warning. Several of the best-maintained projects in this catalogue are unrated for exactly this reason. To judge it, open the repository and look at the date of the most recent commit yourself.
What Sosse actually does
Sosse is a Python-based search engine and web crawler that relies on Selenium for rendering web pages. It includes functionality for offline archiving, allowing you to capture and store web content locally. Because the project lacks a tagged release history, its exact feature set remains minimal and relies heavily on its underlying crawling framework.
Best fit: It is suited for developers and technical users who want to experiment with a Selenium-driven web crawler and search setup in a self-hosted environment.
Worth knowing: The repository has very low visibility and virtually no recent development activity, meaning you are unlikely to find community support or bug fixes. Additionally, the AGPL-3.0 licence places strict copyleft obligations on your deployment if you modify and distribute the code.
Deployment notes
Since it is packaged for Docker and built with Python, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for your archived data and use a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination if accessed over the web.
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