Kukei.eu

Kukei.eu is a project that aims to support small-web, independent creators that miss the times where blogs had "rel=" links to promote befriended blog authors.

It supports, appreciates, and promotes human creations, human thoughts, and insights. While it does not fight AI or LLM tools, those are tools and should be treated as such.

What is it exactly?

kukei.eu is a search engine that indexes small web sites. Currently it indexes blogs from independent authors only. In the future the index base might expand to other categories.

The index is curated and moderated. If a website is in the index, it means someone proposed it. It may be the blog owner, but may also be someone who reads that blog and proposed the link via PR or Mastodon post.

Remove me

If you don't want to be in the index please contact the kukei.eu maintainer on Mastodon (see below) or propose a PR that removes it from spider/index-sources.js file.

You may also edit your robots.txt by disallowing our robots. In this case the maintainer will notice it and remove your blog eventually.

Example robots.txt that targets kukei.eu explicitly

User-agent: Kukei.eu-Bot/0.2
Disallow: *
		

If you already have robots.txt that disallows all robots, this will work too.

Robot

Crawler checks for Kukei.eu-Bot/0.2 robots.txt robot id, and identifies itself as User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kukei.eu-Bot/0.2; +https://kukei.eu)

API usage

Feel free to use kukei.eu as an API for whatever you need.

Sending a GET request with a query param `format=json` would result in a JSON formatted response.

This is currently free of charge, without auth and experimental. While the result format will likely not change in the near future, please don't rely on it too much.

If changed, it would be announced on Mastodon: social.josko.org/@sn and social.josko.org/@kukei

Contact / Impressum

This website is created and maintained by Szymon Nowicki, you can also check all the source code on Codeberg

Privacy policy

This website is hosted in Europe with hetzner.com and bunny.net.

It doesn't use any extensive tracking, only bunny.net CDN stats.

Additionally, I log all queries in a database, for me, to periodically look at them so I can improve quality. Once I look at them, I purge this database table completely.