🪐GRAND UPDATE v3.0.0 – Changes Overview

🪐GRAND UPDATE v3.0.0 – Changes Overview

Removed

• Aggressive mode from both frontend and backend.
• OpenLibrary API (no longer used for link fetching).
• Any UI components related to aggressive mode (e.g., AggressiveModeToggle in React).
• Yahoo search included only as a basic fallback; aggressive combined queries were removed.

Added

• Integration with Qwant API (free search engine) for keyword-specific searches.
• Integration with Hacker News API to fetch relevant posts.
• Integration with StackExchange API to search questions and answers exactly matching keywords.
• DuckDuckGo, Bing, Wikipedia, Reddit remain as search sources.
• Frontend automatically sends keywords and language to backend without any aggressive mode parameters.
• Exact keyword search for all APIs where possible to improve relevance.

Modified / Improved

• Refactored backend to synchronous requests (removed async) to simplify fetching from multiple APIs.
• Simplified frontend UI: removed aggressive mode toggle and related labels.
• Improved URL safety checks:
  • Validate scheme (http/https)
  • Block private, reserved, loopback, multicast IPs
  • Block localhost domains
• Standardized maximum links per keyword to 15 across all sources.
• Backend enforces keywords list ≤10 and keyword length ≤50 characters.
• Added safer requests.Session() usage for all API calls.
• Improved error handling for fetch failures (returns empty list instead of crashing).
• Limiting API calls: 10 requests per minute per client IP via Flask-Limiter.
• Frontend now sends only safe parameters (keywords, lang) and uses Suspense for lazy-loaded components.
• Reduced dependency on IP for safety (more focus on URL validity and safe parsing).
• All previous aggressive mode CSS / UI classes removed.