The Old Boys!

The Search Engine for Vintage Computers

Install

First run composer in root path

composer install

Next run with apache of PHP embedded server

Configuration

DuckDuckGo needs a premium proxies for scraping, because after some request ask for a captcha and can't search anything more.

To round step this you must get a premium proxies can get a 1GB traffic for 1.5 usd in scrapeninja.net

Next, create .env in main project path with three vars

• PROXY_SERVER="proxy2.scrapeninja.net:8002"
• PROXY_USER="xpto-user"
• PROXY_PASSWD="xpto"

Features

• Search engine using DuckDuckGo
• Transform pages in HTML 4.0 using readability (Firefox project)
• Time machine from 1995 to 2010 (data from Wayback Machine project)

Future

• Create a proxy server for don't need use search.php or read.php
• Add jquery 1.x for some animations