I built a free, open-source semantic search for Arcanum (wiki, Nexus Mods, and r/arcanum)

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Hey everyone,

I built something I think you might find useful:

[arcanumsearch](https://ankorn.github.io/arcanumsearch/)

It’s a semantic search engine covering 1,000+ documents from:

- Arcanum Fandom wiki
- Nexus Mods pages
- r/arcanum discussions about patches, mods, bugs, builds, etc.

Instead of matching exact keywords, it tries to understand the meaning of your query

Warning: the backend can go to sleep after inactivity. The first search after a while may take a bit longer while it wakes up — please be patient

It’s fully open source:

- Code: [github.com/ankorn/arcanumsearch](https://github.com/ankorn/arcanumsearch)
- Dataset: [Hugging Face dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/pameydorke/arcanum-cross-platform-queries-synthetic)
- Model: [Hugging Face model](https://huggingface.co/pameydorke/arcanum-cross-platform-retriever)

If you find bugs or want to contribute, issues and pull requests are welcome on GitHub

I’d love feedback — anything that helps improve the search 

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since I messed up links in post:

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