# mwmbl/mwmbl

An open source, non-profit web search engine

Repository: https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mwmbl
Homepage: https://mwmbl.org
Language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: search-engine, non-profit
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:16:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1711, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1844, forks 93 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:43.324104+00:00)

## What it is
Mwmbl is an open source, non-profit web search engine with no ads or tracking, where the community determines rankings and runs distributed crawling. It offers a hosted search at mwmbl.org plus a command-line crawler and Firefox extension for contributing to the index.

## Use cases
- search the web without ads or tracking
- self-host an open source search engine
- contribute spare bandwidth to a community web crawler
- find a privacy-respecting alternative to Google or Bing
- curate community-ranked search results
- run a non-profit search engine project

## When to choose
- you want a transparent, ad-free, community-governed search engine
- you want to contribute compute or curation to an open search index
- you prefer non-profit alternatives to commercial search engines

## When to avoid
- you need comprehensive, Google-scale index coverage
- you need commercial-grade relevance ranking or enterprise search features
- you want a fully decentralized/federated architecture (the index is centralized)

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, web-scraping, cli
- domain: self-hosted, privacy, web-development
- platform: python, browser-extension, self-hosted
- tags: non-profit, community-driven, open-source-search, no-tracking, distributed-crawling, alternative-search-engine, search, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- mwmbl/mwmbl (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.324104+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 2026-08-30T03:17:56.364013+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.324104+00:00, sha 5078fb62d589)
  - homepage: https://mwmbl.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:57:11.271954+00:00, sha 94bcf0bc9bb6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.