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Ask Ubuntu Data Server

Version 0.1 - Last updated 10 months, 1 week ago

An extremely fast data server that performs text searches on information contained in the Ask Ubuntu public data dumps.

License: GNU General Public License 3

stackexchange c++ qt server

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This project was born out of a need to get data from the Ask Ubuntu API with little latency. Since the API itself is quite slow and is not suitable for 'search-as-you-type' requests, it became quite clear that some other form of search was required. None of the major search engines provided what was needed.

Since Ask Ubuntu releases bi-monthly data dumps with most of the site content, the idea for AU Data Server was born. This application is designed to take advantage of the data dumps and improve performance dramatically by responding to queries within milliseconds. The databaseis kept up to date by frequently polling the API (currently every two minutes).

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10 months ago

phwd

Interesting maybe this could work for Stack Overflow?
10 months ago

Nathan Osman

phwd: Yes, the tool should work with Stack Overflow in its current state. However, the Stack Overflow data dump is gigantic and it would certainly take a fair amount of time for the server to build the DDI index. So it is definitely possible, but perhaps infeasible.

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