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 # Lighthouse - A lightning fast search for the LBRY blockchain
 
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 Lighthouse is a lightning-fast advanced search engine API for publications on the lbrycrd with autocomplete capabilities.
 The official lighthouse instance is live at https://lighthouse.lbry.io