Add a simple search

[robi]

@vjvanjungg why not visit the Surfer page instead and use the browser search tool Ctrl-F?

[vjvanjungg]

@nebulon I’ve checked out Meemo with the search recently. If compatible technically, may be part of it could be brought here to save time/work?

[vjvanjungg]

@robi sometimes i don’t remember where i put it initially within nested folders. not sure if there are any more users like me.

[robi]

@vjvanjungg aha.. nested folders.. that will do it.

Nope we're all perfect!

having a personal web crawler might be neat,

maybe using something like WebDAV with DASL would solve it?
https://www.webdavsystem.com/server/documentation/search

[marcusquinn]

Maybe Cyber Duck / Mountain Duck could help with this sort of thing too?

[vjvanjungg]

@robi well.. how did you read my next thought on the WebDAV thing! TBH, I’m curious but haven’t wrapped my head around the usage yet. will read it up. grazi

[vjvanjungg]

@marcusquinn i will try it! looks promising.

[robi]

@vjvanjungg I am telepathic and clairvoyant

[nebulon]

I would not mind to add some search directly within surfer, this would probably be much better than having to use some 3rd party webdav crawler or such. I do not really have any experience with file indexers though, if anyone has, please let me know about the options on Linux.

[vjvanjungg]

@robi it dawned on me days ago, “yahh, that what he meant by nope we’re all perfect, lol” we have unique supapowa !

[robi]

@vjvanjungg it was a mix of sarcasm and affirmation.

[jdaviescoates]

Yes, search in Surfer would be great!

(I just wanted to search https://library.uniteddiversity.coop to see if I had a particular file up there but then realised I couldn't - well, I can really because I've got it mounted locally, but really I'd like anyone to be able to search directly on Surfer )

[robi]

@jdaviescoates might be best to use a crawler on your site to index the collection. Even more so to pick up data from inside the file contents.

Nice library btw

[jdaviescoates]

@robi yeah, it's indexed pretty well by search engines already. Would still be nice for people to be able to search it if they visit it directly too.

[robi]

@jdaviescoates make a page that embeds a preconfigured URL to search only your site.

[robi]

this may be an interesting alternative with lots of features built in, search being one of them..
https://after-dark.habd.as/feature/fuzzy-search/