Yacy
Yacy is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Search Engines category, licensed GPL-2.0 and written mainly in Java. It ships a Docker image. It has 4,080 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Sep 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 4,080
- Forks
- 504
- Open issues
- 215
- Commits, last 12 months
- 212
- Last commit
- Sep 23, 2026
- Latest release
- No releases
- Created
- Mar 22, 2015
- License
- GPL-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Sep 23, 2026, 212 commits in 12 months.
- Welcomes contributors5 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
| Last commit | Sep 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 212 |
| Latest release | No GitHub releases |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 0 |
| Open issues | 215 |
| Open pull requests | 30 |
| Good first issues | 3 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Mar 22, 2015 |
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About Yacy
Peer based, decentralized search engine server.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server.
Topics
- decentralized
- p2p
- p2p-network
- privacy
- privacy-protection
- search-engine
- searchengine
- web
- web-search-engine
- websearch
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Is Yacy free and open source?
Yes. Yacy is open-source software released under the GPL-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Yacy with Docker?
Yes. Yacy provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Yacy?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Yacy include ElasticSearch, MeiliSearch and SearXNG.
Is Yacy actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Yacy was on Sep 23, 2026 with 212 commits in the past twelve months. It had 215 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.