Sosse

Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.

Maintained Last commit on 2026-03-24

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At a glance

GitLab stars: 2
Forks: 1
Last commit: 2026-03-24
Latest release: –
Commits (12 mo): –
Releases (12 mo): –
License: AGPL-3.0
Language / platform: Python, Docker

Maintenance health: Maintained

Last commit within the past 12 months. Last commit on 2026-03-24.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub).

Run Sosse yourself

RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU)
Docker: yes
Storage: plan disk for your data (media/files grow fast); attach a volume or use object storage.

Estimated monthly server cost

Provider	Plan size	~ USD / month
Vultr	2 GB	$10	Deploy →
DigitalOcean	2 GB	$12	Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)	2 GB	$12	Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

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