SeekStorm
Affordable cloud and self-hosted search API offering real-time, full-text search with instant results. Supports web-scale indexing and structured data extraction.
SeekStorm is an open-source alternative to:
SeekStorm is a high-performance Search as a Service and Crawler as a Service platform designed for real-time, full-text search and structured data extraction.
Key Features
Search API
- Real-time indexing – Documents are instantly searchable upon indexing
- Instant search – Results returned while typing with auto-completion
- Spelling correction – Fast automatic query correction
- Boolean search – Supports AND, NOT, PHRASE, and field filters
- Dynamic sorting & custom ranking – Define sort order and combine ranking factors
- Boosting & field filtering – Promote documents and search specific fields
- Faceting & grouping – Value/range faceting, distinct results, and grouping
- KWIC summaries – Keyword-in-context for better relevancy
- Web-scale index – Handles up to 100 TB with high performance
- Language independent – Supports UTF-8 text in any language
- Scoped API keys – Full and query-only keys for access control
- RESTful API with CORS – Easy integration with applications
Crawler API
- High-performance crawling – Thousands of documents per second
- Focused crawling – URL filtering to reduce index size and latency
- Polite crawler – Configurable politeness and recrawl times
- Boilerplate removal – Extracts pure content while discarding ads/navigation
- Structured data extraction – Supports schema.org and Open Graph protocols
- Auxiliary data fields – Custom fields added to crawled documents
- Multi-threaded & timeout control – Optimize performance and reliability
Tech / Self-Hosting
SeekStorm is open-source and can be self-hosted on-premises. The platform is built for scalability, supporting millions or billions of documents with thousands of concurrent users. It is privacy-friendly, EU-friendly (GDPR compliant), and does not rely on AI models, making it a no-AI solution.