Show HN: DeepSearch – Search engine built on DeepSeek API

A developer released DeepSearch, an open-source search engine built on DeepSeek's newly launched search API, with source code posted to GitHub at github.com/try-works/deepsearch. DeepSearch stores user API credentials or DeepSeek OAuth tokens locally and exposes the API's operators, including time, language, exact-phrase matching in quotes, excluded terms with a minus sign, and site search, while results display domain authority and rank. An Ask mode returns generated answers to questions, and the developer said early results seem "passable" after only quick test queries, suggesting a local client with history and memory as the most interesting next step.

DeepSeek launched their search API so I had to build a search engine on top of it. The search engine is very simple: add your DeepSeek API credentials or OAuth with your DeepSeek account and you can search the web using their API and view results in a familiar web interface. Credentials are stored locally only. The search engine exposes the operators from the API: - Time - Language - Exact terms with "..." like Google used to - Forbidden terms with "-" - Site search and excluded sites Search results expose things like domain authority, rank etc. You can also switch to Ask and get a generated response for your question. Give it a try and see if this works as a Google replacement. So far the results seem passable but I've only done quick test queries. I also shared the source on GitHub so you could self-host or fork it into a local client. The most interesting thing here would be to build a local client with history/memory, so that your knowledge compounds. https://github.com/try-works/deepsearch https://github.com/try-works/deepsearch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226186 Points: 2 Comments: 1