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.
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
- 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
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python, Docker |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 2 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | gitlab.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.
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