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Is there a free script that i can use to search any website that is in my own country.

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As clarified, the goal is a site search limited to the .zw country TLD. pointed toward gathering domains with search operators — that works for small lists but is brittle for a production search. Two practical, accurate paths follow: one fast and low-effort, one robust and self-hosted.

Fast / low-effort (best for a simple search box)

  • Let a major search engine do the indexing and constrain queries to the TLD. A plain web link pattern is: 
    https://www.google.com/search?q=site:.zw+your+keywords
  • That returns Google-indexed .zw pages only. To embed search UI properly use Google Programmable Search Engine rather than scraping results; see Programmable Search Engine for embedding and the Google search-operator reference for the site: operator: https://programmablesearchengine.google.com and
  • Caution: this relies on what the chosen engine has indexed and on that engine's terms of service.

Robust / full-control (if you need full coverage)

  • Run your own crawler/indexer so you control which .zw hosts are included. Common stacks: Apache Nutch to crawl, then index into Apache Solr or Elasticsearch. You can also bootstrap from public crawl datasets like Common Crawl and filter for .zw. See https://nutch.apache.org/ and https://commoncrawl.org/
  • Key notes: obey robots.txt, seed from authoritative local sites, limit crawling to .zw domains, and schedule recrawls. This costs server resources but gives the best coverage and freshness.

If immediate simplicity is required, use the Google approach. If coverage or independence matters, plan a small crawler + index pipeline.

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Can you be more specific what you mean by website that is in my own country?

1) Do you mean a web-site with TLD of your country?

2) Do you mean the server located in your country?

3) Do mean a web-site dealing with subject of your country?

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i mean the TLD (top level domain) with '.zw'.

want to put a serch engine on my site that will find all TLD ending with 'zw'

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You will have to craete this list yourself.

You can search in Yahoo site:.zm and add a common word such as the, you will get a list of all .zm domains indexed in yahoo. Something to start with.

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