Meta Search Engine – Complete Project Knowledge Map
This document provides a complete overview of all Python libraries, AI/ML tools, and supporting
technologies needed to build your AI-powered Meta Search Engine.
Phase 0: Foundation
• Language: Python
• Libraries: requests, httpx, pydantic
• Skills: API basics, REST, JSON handling, HTML/CSS/JS fundamentals
Phase 1: App Skeleton
• FastAPI – Modern async Python web framework
• uvicorn – ASGI server for FastAPI
• jinja2 – Optional templating for HTML
Phase 2: Search Aggregator
• requests / httpx – Fetch results from APIs
• aiohttp – Async calls to multiple APIs
• python-dotenv – Manage API keys
• APIs: SerpAPI, DuckDuckGo API, PRAW (Reddit API), newsapi-python
Phase 3: Extract Page Content
• newspaper3k – Extract clean article text
• readability-lxml – Remove clutter
• BeautifulSoup4 (bs4) – HTML parsing
• lxml – Fast parsing
• selenium / playwright – For dynamic sites
Phase 4: Summarization with AI
• openai – Official GPT API
• langchain – Orchestrating AI workflows
• tiktoken – Token counting
• transformers – Hugging Face models
• sentence-transformers – Embeddings & semantic search
• faiss – Vector search & ranking
Phase 5: Smart Chat UI
• fastapi-socketio / websockets – Real-time chat
• starlette – Async event handling
• jinja2 – Optional server-rendered templates
• Web Speech API (JS-side) – Voice input
Phase 6: Performance & Features
• psycopg2 / asyncpg – PostgreSQL driver
• redis-py – Redis client
• fastapi-cache – Caching API responses
• loguru – Logging
Phase 7: Deployment
• gunicorn – Production server
• docker – Containerization
• pydantic-settings – Config management for deployment
AI/ML Skills Required
• Prompt engineering – Writing effective GPT prompts
• Chunking & context management – Splitting large text
• Embedding search – Using sentence-transformers + faiss
• API rate limit handling – Retry logic
• Summarization strategies – Extractive vs. abstractive