I build a search engine for This Week In Rust - here`s why

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I've been a fan of the Rust programming language for a long time. When I started with Rust several years ago, I discovered the website this-week-in-rust, and it became the most important source of information for everything related to Rust for me. My bookmark list kept getting longer and longer. Still, there came a point where I remembered having read something, but at the time hadn't considered the link important enough for my bookmark list.

That's how the idea for a search page for this-week-in-rust news came about. It would still take a long time before I found the time to actually implement it. New technologies emerged (AI) and now support me in the implementation. What started as a small hobby project quickly grew bigger and bigger. I thought to myself, maybe others feel the same way. And so the site https://this-week-in-rust-search.org was born. I hope the site will help you just as much as it has helped me, and the maintainers of this-week-in-rust are fine with the issues being searchable.

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Is there any interest on integrating this into TWiR? All the more so, since they already have the data.

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I don't think they do?

If this is useful it's because it scraped the contents of what's linked, not just the text of the issues, since otherwise one can search it with site:this-week-in-rust.org or using ripgrep in a git checkout.