Sosse

Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.

Maintained

At a glance

GitHub stars
2
Last activity
2026-03-24
Latest release
–
Commits (12 mo)
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License
AGPL-3.0
Language / platform
Python, Docker

Maintenance health: Maintained — Activity within the last 12 months.

Run Sosse yourself

  • RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: yes
  • Storage: plan disk for your data (media/files grow fast); attach a volume or use object storage.

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr2 GB$10Deploy →
DigitalOcean2 GB$12Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)2 GB$12Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

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