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API to build a custom search engine that searches and displays results in my site

I am looking for a search-engine API, preferably in PHP, that I can use to build a custom search engine that only searches my website.

And whose results I can style with CSS, so I believe that requires the results page to be in my site / on my server.

I would prefer to not use Bing's API.

But, if you have any APIs or solutions to achieve what I am trying to achieve, I would sincerely appreciate it and feel free to share them.

Solution

  • Use Elastic Search, it is dead easy to set up and use because it's just REST. There is also already a very well done php lib for it, Elastica.

    You'll have to build your own index based on whatever you need. But I can tell you that it is very efficient and we implemented it within a day.