--- title: Ppen source search engine and spider/crawler written in... description: Gigablast is a distributed open source web and enterprise search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD platforms. The project is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ppen-source-search-engine-and-spider-crawler-written-in-c-c-for-linux-on-intel-amd-ordccdbjn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ppen source search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD | daily.dev og:description: Gigablast is a distributed open source web and enterprise search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD platforms. The project is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ppen-source-search-engine-and-spider-crawler-written-in-c-c-for-linux-on-intel-amd-ordccdbjn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ORdCCdbjN.png og:image:alt: Ppen source search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ppen source search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD **[Daily Open Source Tools](https://daily.dev/sources/dailyopensourcetools)** · [@luffyboi](https://daily.dev/luffyboi) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Gigablast is a distributed open source web and enterprise search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD platforms. The project is hosted on GitHub and provides both source code and binaries. Build dependencies are minimal, requiring make, g++, libssl-dev, and zlib1g-dev on Debian-based systems, or gcc-c++ and openssl-devel on RedHat/CentOS. Documentation covers quick start instructions and code architecture for developers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run](https://daily.dev/posts/search-engine-bots-crawled-so-ai-bots-could-run-qrxeukapk) · Stack Overflow Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [How I built a 500k-Domain Search Engine for Makers in a Weekend for $10](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-500k-domain-search-engine-for-makers-in-a-weekend-for-10-lbhwfd3kg) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenClaw passed 300,000 GitHub stars. 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