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Sosse

Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.

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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Mar 2026.

Comparisons in Search Engines: Algolia alternatives, Google Search alternatives.

Docker #16 of 16 in Search Engines

At a glance

Sosse quick facts

Health score
22/100 STALE
Stars
2
Last commit
7 months ago (Mar 2026)
Latest release
No tagged release
Licence
AGPL-3.0

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Why it ranks here

Health score explained

Sosse scores 22/100, #16 of 16 in Search Engines: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 2 stars add 1.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.

Recomputed nightly from the GitLab API. How the score is calculated.

  • Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35

    0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)

  • Release recency 0.0 / 25

    No tagged release found

  • Stars 1.9 / 20

    2 stars on GitLab (logarithmic)

  • Not archived 10.0 / 10

    Repository is active

  • Docker support 10.0 / 10

    Docker image or Compose file available

Commit activity

0 commits over the last 12 months
0
Last 90 days
0
Last 12 months
7 months ago
Last push

Ranked #16 of 16 tools in Search Engines by health , just below bitmagnet (#15) .

Details

LicenceAGPL-3.0
PlatformsPython, Docker
Latest releaseNo tagged release
Stars2
DockerYes
Repositorygitlab.com/biolds1/sosse ↗

Sosse vs its top 5 alternatives

Active tools that share a category with Sosse (Search Engines), scored on the same five terms.

Tool Health Stars Licence Last commit
Hister 95 6.2k AGPL-3.0 yesterday
Papra 95 5.6k AGPL-3.0 yesterday
Bichon 93 2.1k AGPL-3.0 yesterday
mail-archiver 93 2.2k GPL-3.0 2 days ago
bitmagnet 40 4.4k MIT 3 months ago
Sosse (this tool) 22 2 AGPL-3.0 7 months ago

Sosse: common questions

Is Sosse still maintained?

Sosse had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 7 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.