Hey everyone,

I've made some pretty significant updates to /u/taskernet-collector, my Taskernet search bot, and wanted to share. Hopefully you'll find this helpful. See my original post here if you missed it.

TL;DR

• 1500+ shares now searchable.
• See source links in search results.
• Add [no-collect] anywhere in your share description, and it will not be picked up by the bot.
• Search by action and/or plugin.
• New site to search Taskernet shares at https://pghant.github.io/taskernet-collector
• Bot and site are open source!

Search improvements

The bot's search should be much more powerful now. I realized that my old way of scraping old posts for shares was missing a lot of them. After updating how I grab those shares, I now have 1500+ shares that you can search through. The bot is constantly scraping so that number is continually growing.

I'm now also parsing the actual Tasker data for every share and extracting the actions, states, events, plugins, apps etc and using those to inform the search. This means that you can now search by plugin or action as well. Thanks to u/anandkpandey for the tip on how to parse the Tasker data.

Search results now also give you the source links for where that Taskernet share was referenced on Reddit. Seeing the source link will often give you a lot more information on how to use any specific share if the description is sparse.

Privacy improvements

Taskernet Collector only collects shares that were posted publicly here on Reddit. If you create a Taskernet share and do not post it on r/tasker or r/taskernet, the bot will not get it. However, if for any reason you want to share something on this subreddit without it being searchable, you can opt out by adding [no-collect] anywhere in your share description.

New search site

Biggest news is that searching is no longer limited to the bot! You can now search for Taskernet shares at:

https://pghant.github.io/taskernet-collector

Searches on the site are not limited to just the top 5 results that the bot brings back. You can scroll through all possible matches. You will also get more details about every share including view/download count, relevant tags, and modified date.

The site is pretty simplistic right now (I'm not the best designer), but I hope to continue to improve it over time.

Open Source

The code for /u/taskernet-collector and the Taskernet Collector search site has been open sourced on Github. You can find it here:

https://github.com/pghant/taskernet-collector

Please feel free to look at the code and make any suggestions. If you find any problems with the search, the bot, or the site, you can open up an issue on the Github repo or just PM me here.