YaCy documentation

Basics

• Download and installation - guide for unix, windows and macos
• FAQ - Frequently asked questions
• Readme - at github.com

Installation

• Headless - YaCy on a Remote Server
• Shrink Debian by removing all graphical features to turn it into a headless server
• Set a static IP to a debian server

Operation

• Setting the ranking rules
• YaCy config settings

Developers

• How to contribute
• Description of the YaCy Distributed Web Search Engine - scientific paper describing the technology
• Crawler API
• javadoc - generated documentation for YaCy's java source code

Converted from old-wiki

may be outdated, you can help the community by checking and improving the pages

Basics

• Use cases
• Features

Installation

• System Requirements
• Arch Install Guide
• Installation of YaCy on Debian
• YaCy High-Availability Configuration on Debian
• HowTo install YaCy on Gentoo
• GNU Install
• FreeBSD Install Guide
• Install YaCy-packages from OpenSUSE Build Service
• Set up Raspberry Pi with YaCy

Operation

• Index Creation - Crawl Start
• Autoupdate
• Portforwarding
• Using the YaCy Front-End over HTTPS
• Performance Tuning
• YaCy and Tor
• Network Definition

Old and obsolete

The original YaCy wiki is closed now (no new registration or editing) and will be abandoned in future, but still contains valuable information. You can help the community by transfering the usable information to yacy github documentation from which this page is being generated. See how.

• yacy wiki - please help
• developers wiki - please help