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Show HN: Instant SVG icon search with over 50K+ icons indexed

iconsear.ch

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My original side project was a logo search website [1], but I realized that it would work for other types of images besides logos. And I had a lot of bookmarks to SVG icons repositories. And I found a great domain name (seriously: are the domainers asleep?). So allow me to introduce IconSear.ch!

I wrote it in NodeJS/Koa with server-side full-text search using Lunr.js, running on Google CloudRun. Source and full list of credits: [2]

The index of icons is in a separate repo [3]. Contributions welcome! Right now, all the sources are on github or gitlab, but it could support any website that can publish in the index format and allows hotlinking.

I know there are a ton of almost identical icon search websites (my list: [4]), and while mine is infinitely superior and perfect, I'm still interested in what you think!

[1] https://logosear.ch/search.html

[2] https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/logosearch#credits

[3] https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/git-svg-icons

[4] https://iconsear.ch/alternatives/index.html

I really like this project, so thanks for making it!

One improvement that I can think of is to be able to see the license the icon is released under next to the icon. Another is to filter by available license types.

I can see why he’d rather not have to deal with the licensing information (pretty soon you want an UI to decipher the alphabet-soup of CCGPLBSD/NSA/NZDAP-3.2xp...), but yeah, it would be nice. Iconfinder has that sort of thing and it speeds up matters a lot.

I think this is doable, at least for repos on Github, since they have an API to get the license for a repo:

https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/#get-the-license-fo...

I missed your Show HN a few months ago for the Logo Search. That thing is awesome!

Most of the ones I've come across in the past are great for finding logos for companies in the tech-sphere, but fall short outside of that. This one seems to have a whole lot more comprehensive coverage.

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