Requirements

• any webserver with PHP 7.3+ up to PHP 8.1
• php-curl (could be included in php-common)
• php-pdo and database extension (sqlite or mysql)
• php-mbstring
• php-xml

The tool is designed to run on a local machine, a vm or your own server.
It CAN run on a shared hosting (I do it myself). But a shared hosting can have limitations. It is not guaranteed that the tool can work for all websites with every hoster. Keep an eye to the following troublemakers.

• PHP interpreter: it must be allowed to start the php interpreter in a shell. To verify it, connect via ssh to your web hosting and execute php -v. If there is a not found message there is maybe a possibibility to start php in a cronjob.
  If the php interpreter is not available then it is not possible to start a crawling process.
  Ask your provider how to start php as cli tool. Maybe the provide allows it in another hosting package.
• Script timeout: The indexing process needs its time. It is longer as more single pages and linked elements you have. The indexing process for the html content must be finished within the timeout. The 2nd crawler process to follow linked items (javascript, css, images, media, links) can be repeated to handle still missed elements.

Last Updates

• 2022-03-17: v0.152
  • FIX: repeat search on page search terms - top N
  • FIX: do not abort if creation of database index failes
  • ADDED: update detects a git instance and starts a git pull or download+unzip
  
  
• 2022-03-07: v0.151
  • FIX: switch back to language en within content
  • UPDATE: dark theme (work in progress)
  • UPDATE: about page shows PHP version and modules
  • UPDATE: PHP 8.1 compatibility
  
  
• 2021-11-15: v0.150
  • FIX: install from scratch was broken in 0.149
  • ADDED: set skin in the settings
  • ADDED: dark theme (work in progress)
  
  
• 2021-10-26: v0.149
  • FIX: warning if missing iSiteid in counter.class.php
  • FIX: follow 30x redirects in link checker
  • UPDATE: upgrade medoo from version 1.x to 2.1.3 ... which requires PHP 7.3 now
  • UPDATE: charts backgound is more simple
  • ADDED: counters for http header checks
  • ADDED: stacked view for errors and warnings on backend home page
  • ADDED: slight animation for charts
  • ADDED: many historical views of warnings/ errors/ values on several views (it takes a few days to appear)
  • ADDED: caching for backend pages
  • UPDATE: y scale in charts
  • UPDATE: upgrade chart js -> 3.6.0
  • ADDED: log error message on missing php interpreter as cli tool.
  
  
• 2021-09-14: v0.148
  • ADDED: store counter values
    This is a background mechanism - its output follows in a next release.
  • UPDATE: upgrade chart js from v2 to v3 (using 3.5.1)
  • UPDATE: font-awesome 5.15.4
  • UPDATE: pure 2.0.6
  • FIX: remove encoding br (Brotli) in http request headers
    This fixes the crawling websites using the brotli copmression, i.e. Wordpress hostings.
  • FIX: comparison with canonical links
  • PATCH: get redirect url from raw http response header if missed in curl data
  
  

Why

So, why did I write this tool?

The starting point was to write a crawler and website search in PHP as a replacement for Sphider that was discontinued and had open bugs.

On my domain I don't use just a CMS ... I also have a blog tool, several small applications for photos, demos, ... That's why the internal search of a CMS is not enough. I wanted to have a search index with all of my content of different tools.
So I wrote a crawler and an html parser to index my pages...

If I had a spider ... and an html parser ... and all content information ... the next logical step was to add more checks for my website. And there are a lot of possibilities like link checkers, check metadata, http response headers, ssl information ...

You can install it on your own server or a shared hoster. All data are under your control. All timers are under your control. If you fix something: just reindex and then immediately check if the error is gone.

Features

• written in PHP; usable on shared hosters
• support of multiple websites in a single backend
• spider to index content: CLI / cronjob
• verify search content
• check entered search commands of your visitors
• analyze http reponse header
• analyze ssl certificate
• analyze html metadata: title, keywords, loading time
• link checker
• built in web updater

Screenshots

Just to get a few first impressions ... :-)

Backend - statistics of the entered search terms

Backend - anlysis of the website