Paperfinder v3

The third iteration of this godforsaken piece of junk

Features

• Less and lighter dependencies
• New design
• Fast
• Server side rendering

Dependencies

1. Poppler (provides the pdftotext executable)
2. ImageMagick (provides the convert executable)
3. Go 1.18+

Usage

• To retrieve all past papers run with --papers flag
• To reindex all past papers run with --index flag
• To start the web server run with no flags

MANGLE_KEY environment variable is a secret key to prevent scraping from server

SEARCH_THRESHOLD environment variable specifies the % of words that have to match for a search to come as valid

Environment

Example .env

PAPER_CONFIG=papers.json
PAPER_FOLDER=_pastpapers
MANGLE_KEY=secret
SEARCH_THRESHOLD=80

HTTP_PORT=8080

Upcoming

• HTTPS support
• Better design
• Support for more subjects, exams and exam boards