Quick-start

Dependencies

  • Go 1.13

  • OpenSearch 7.x

  • RabbitMQ / AMQP server

  • NodeJS 9.x

  • IPFS 0.7

Building

$ go get ./...
$ make

Running

Docker

The most convenient way to run the crawler is through Docker. Simply run:

docker-compose up

This will start the crawler, the sniffer and all its dependencies. Hashes can also be queued for crawling manually by running ipfs-search a <hash> from within the running container. For example:

docker-compose exec ipfs-crawler ipfs-search add QmS4ustL54uo8FzR9455qaxZwuMiUhyvMcX9Ba8nUH4uVv

Ansible deployment

Automated deployment can be done on any (virtual) Ubuntu 16.04 machine. The full production stack is automated and can be found in it’s own repository.