recoll-webui VS fsearch

Recoll is not just useable for desktop applications, it can also be used as a local web search engine through recoll-webui [1] (link goes to my own repo which has some modifications to make it work with the Searx/SearxNG engine) which in turn can be used as an "engine" in Searx and SearxNG through the recoll engine [2] (which has been merged so it is no longer necessary to pull it from my repo).

This last option makes Searx/SearxNG useable for all types of searches, both local as well as remote. I've been using this exclusively for many years now over a large collection of documents (about 600.000 entries) with good results.

[1] https://github.com/Yetangitu/recoll-webui

[2] https://docs.searxng.org/admin/engines/recoll.html

[2] https://searx.github.io/searx/admin/engines/recoll.html

Hi, author here.

Likely the most significant benefit is the more powerful query language. For example you can also search by file modification date or size and use boolean operators. https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/wiki/Search-syntax

Yes, FSearch is the one I use, but it's not as great, per FSearch's dev:

> However, FSearch doesn't automatically detect changes made to the file system and update its index then. This is on the roadmap (it's called inotify support) but it'll never work as smooth as Everything on Windows, because the Linux kernel isn't particularly good at reporting filesystem changes

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/issues/26

Everything is comprehensive + instant + always up-to-date, that's so awesome a combo it's a pity it's Windows only

If you are new and wish a simple way to search, fsearch is a very nice tool.... https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

You might consider grabbing the latest release at https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/releases.

One other program I've been particularly enjoying recently is fsearch : https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

If you don't need content indexing, Fsearch is an alternative. I've been using it for over a year now and it's been working flawlessly. Results are near instant and the db is in single digit megabytes.

But AFAIK nothing seems to use this, def not fsearch, they have an open issue - https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/issues/26

Still remember those days of arguing on /g/ where linux longbeards stallman fanboys tried to say how this or that tool was good search... but I dont want to just find something, I want to use it that second, and I want the entire system indexed... after getting some webms to showcase that instant feel it got the message across, though later someone appeared with some dmenu trickery being similarly fast and useful... anyway Fsearch that appeared soon after me is the real deal.