# loklak

Distributed Open Source twitter and social media message search server that anonymously collects, shares, dumps and indexes data http://api.loklak.org

Repository: https://github.com/loklak/loklak_server
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/loklak
Language: Java
License: LGPL-2.1
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2022-10-03T21:25:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4181, "days_push": 1430, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1391, forks 221 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:35.925134+00:00)

## What it is
Loklak is a distributed Java server application that anonymously collects, indexes, and shares social media messages (especially tweets) using an Elasticsearch backend with peer-to-peer index sharing. It provides its own search API and portal so users can search and archive tweets without Twitter authentication.

## Use cases
- search tweets anonymously without twitter api keys
- archive large amounts of tweets about a topic
- build my own tweet search engine
- collect social media messages for statistics
- analyze tweet data with kibana
- share tweet dumps with other peers

## When to choose
- you want anonymous, self-hosted social media message search and archiving
- you need to build statistics or analytics over large tweet collections
- you want a peer-to-peer index sharing setup across loklak instances

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent development activity
- you need real-time access to current Twitter APIs, which have since restricted access
- you want a lightweight client-side tool rather than a full server deployment

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: search-engine, web-scraping, http-server, api-framework, data-science
- domain: social-media, analytics, big-data, self-hosted
- platform: jvm, self-hosted
- tags: twitter, social-media-search, elasticsearch, p2p-index-sharing, anonymous-search, tweet-archiving, search, docker, web-server, linux

## Member repositories
- loklak/loklak_server (main) score 23
- loklak/apps.loklak.org (frontend) score 32
- loklak/loklak_heroku_ant_buildpack (infra) score 32
- loklak/loklak_bluemix_ant_buildpack (infra) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:35.925134+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:39:34.738901+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/loklak/loklak_server (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:35.925134+00:00, sha 50ca14c99918)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.