Cocoapods: Website search is broken, again.

[pmiotto]

What did you do?

Go to cocoapods.org and search for something

What did you expect to happen?

Search results to appear

What happened instead?

Nothing

[segiddins]

looks like aws-search.cocoapods.org just isn't responding

[av089]

It is very annoying that it is frequently broken!

[segiddins]

@av089 you’re welcome to volunteer your time to help us maintain it

[Leon16]

have to use another one http://cocoapods.wantedly.com

[sushant40]

@segiddins - happy to help out to make search more robust. Though I don't know where to start... can you point me in the right direction please?

[orta]

The repo is https://github.com/cocoaPods/search.cocoapods.org - it feels like it's hitting memory limits, so looking at ways to reduce the amount of memory stored per-pod might be a good option

[sushant40]

Has anyone looked at moving the search and index out into something like https://www.algolia.com/

Its free to use for open source so licensing shouldn't be a problem for CocoaPods. Very fast and very reliable.

[askari01]

it is still down

[mkubista]

Is here anybody, who knows, how to fix this? I would be very happy to help solve this, but as mobile developer have no clue right now what is happening. As somebody mentioned the search engine is down. Am I right that it is hosted on https://www.cloudflare.com/? Does somebody know if the search engine is overloaded, turned off or there is some bug?

[orta]

I've left notes about porting it to algolia, https://github.com/CocoaPods/cocoapods.org/issues/356 - which is open for someone to pick up

[misteu]

In the meantime, I found this terminal command quite helpful:

pod search alamofire --simple --ios

make sure to use --simple, otherwise it is very slow because of it indexing the master repo.

[ygornascimento]

Same problem here in Brazil. I'm not an expert but, I'd like to help you guys to solve the problem.

[c3stream]

https://github.com/CocoaPods/cocoapods.org/issues/356

When do you expect the problem to be resolved?

[ppamorim]

Still broken, trying to access it on Ireland.

[av089]

@ppamorim I think it will never come again!
please move to Carthage, which is far better than this...

[StanDimitroff]

Not working from Bulgaria too :(

[gaus55]

Hi Guys i tried this and worked. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38993527/cocoapods-failed-to-connect-to-github-to-update-the-cocoapods-specs-specs-repo

[segiddins]

It’s known to be down. Please follow status.cocoapods.org for updates.
The search repo is at https://github.com/CocoaPods/search.cocoapods.org for those interested in contributing.

I’m locking this issue for now, since we know it’s down and further comments won’t give us more actionable information

[dnkoutso]

Search is back online.