Roam Sanity Preserver

A search engine for everything related to Roam Research on the Web.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please create an issue, or join the Slack channel.

1. Installation

Install Elasticsearch [7.x] (see instructions here)

Clone the repo:

$ git clone [email protected]:br-g/roam-sanity-preserver.git

Install the roam-sanity package using pip (you need Python 3.6 or later):

$ cd roam-sanity-preserver/
$ pip install -U -e .

2. Get the data

Download and unzip the latest data:

$ curl https://roamsanity.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/prod/public/data.zip -o data.zip
$ unzip data.zip

3. Build the index

Make sure Elasticsearch is running, and then:

$ python scripts/build_index.py --data_path data/

4. Start the app

Make sure Elasticsearch is running, and then:

$ python app/main.py

Open http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your browser.

[bonus] Run the crawling scripts

First, install some extra dependencies:

$ pip install -U -e .[crawl]

Then set the path to your data folder:

$ export RSP_DATA_PATH="data/"

To crawl Roam Research:

$ python scripts/crawl_roam.py

To crawl Twitter:

$ python scripts/crawl_twitter.py --help

To crawl Slack:

$ python scripts/crawl_slack.py --help

Help needed!

If you would like to help integrate new data sources or improve the service, please contribute!