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app.proprietary — non-Apache-2 license boundary
Everything in this directory tree is licensed separately from the rest of
SurfSense (which is Apache-2.0). See LICENSE.
Why this exists
This package holds the product moat:
- the in-house undetectable web crawler (Scrapling tiers + stealth/captcha hardening), and
- (future) platform-specific actors that scrape/extract structured data from individual platforms.
Keeping it in one clearly-named directory makes the license boundary
unambiguous: a single rule — everything under app/proprietary/** is not
Apache-2.0 — instead of per-file headers scattered across the tree.
Layout
web_crawler/— the Scrapling-based crawler engine. Public API:WebCrawlerConnector,CrawlOutcome,CrawlOutcomeStatus(from app.proprietary.web_crawler import ...).platforms/— (future, Phase 8) platform-specific actors; scaffolded/empty.
Rules
- Do not add Apache-2.0-intended code here.
- Apache-2.0 code elsewhere may import from this package (the indexer and the
chat
scrape_webpagetools do); that does not move them under this license. - Depend only on the public API exported from each subpackage's
__init__, not on internal modules, so the boundary stays clean and swappable. - Boundary test: put code here only if it is used exclusively by the moat.
Generic infrastructure that Apache-2 features also depend on stays Apache-2
even when the crawler uses it too. Example:
app/utils/proxy/(provider abstraction, registry,CustomProxyProvider+ rotation — a thin wrapper over Scrapling's publicProxyRotator) is shared with the YouTube/transcript and chat features, so it stays Apache-2; only the crawl-ladder-coupled rotation-retry orchestration (web_crawler/connector.py::_run_tier_with_proxy_retry) lives here.