What this is

A lightweight reimplementation of a YaCy peer, built as small, single-purpose Go services.

“YaCy is a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network.” — YaCy FAQ

Start with Build your own search stack to see how to compose the services into working deployments.

Motivation

A standard YaCy node can exceed the memory available on small machines such as a Raspberry Pi, especially as the corpus grows. This project started with that constraint and became an experiment in a different way of building a YaCy peer.

Documentation

Each service under services/ and plugin under plugins/ has its own doc/ directory:

• specification.md covers scope, requirements, and known limitations.
• configuration.md covers operator-facing settings.

Project status

This project is under active development. It follows its own design instead of mirroring the Java version. Some features are not available yet, and others work differently.