What is Kavunka?
Kavunka is a search engine and powerful web scraper, which you can install on your server or
virtual machine and using for enterprise search and/or data mining. Built-in features allow you to parse
Internet sites and create a more informative SERP than other search engines. For a user request, the search
engine can provide not only textual information in the form of a snippet, but also a picture, rating, price,
product characteristics etc.
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Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Linux 64 bit
CPU: 2.0 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
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Technologies are not used: Apache Solr, Apache Lucene, Elasticsearch, Sphinx, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Xapian, DataparkSearch, Tika, fastText, etc. Only unique technologies developed in C.
The search engine Kavunka crawls any website in several streams and scrapes data from web pages. Kavunka is trained to recognize the language of webpages. Currently available: en, it, fr, pt, es, pl, uk, ru. Kavunka is able to correct errors in user search query and get back search hits that match the query. Search robots can bypass site protection using proxy and random user agents.
How can this be used?
1. You can use Kavunka software to
provide search services for sites. Just add the site to the task and the crawlers will start indexing the site.
Next, install a simple form on the site that needs to be searched.

2. You can also use software for scraping a large number
of web pages. Kavunka can use Selenium framework.
Scanning with Firefox allows you to receive data from JavaScript Websites. After crawling the site, you
can receive a scraping report in any format: json, csv, xml.

3. This technology will be useful to owners of Internet
sites to attract additional traffic. You can make a manual selection of sites and add sites of a particular subject,
for example: games, cars, real estate, medicine, etcetera to Kavunka search. Also, you can configure the
parser and extract the information, you are interested in, from the donor sites, for example, price, user ratings,
reviews. After that, you can customize search in such a way that this information will be provided in a convenient
form, it makes the SERP more interesting and informative for your users. As a result of using Kavunka, you will have
a super service on your site, which will be like Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo in functionality. This will
increase the credibility of your Internet resource in the eyes of users and give them the opportunity to search
the Internetwithout leaving your site.

Examples
Website | Subject of sites | Language | Hard |
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kavunka.biz | Laptops, tablets, audio and video, etc. | EN | PowerEdge R320 |
kavunka.com.ua | Ukrainian search engine that specializes in the search of agricultural products | UK + RU | PowerEdge R320 |