hackage-search VS hackage-server

Compare hackage-search vs hackage-server and see what are their differences.

hackage-search

An application that lets you search for anything on Hackage (by serokell)
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hackage-search hackage-server
1 20
24 428
- 1.4%
2.4 7.1
about 1 year ago 7 days ago
Haskell Haskell
- BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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hackage-search

Posts with mentions or reviews of hackage-search. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-19.

hackage-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of hackage-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-24.
  • ¿Cómo instalar Haskell?
    6 projects | dev.to | 24 Mar 2025
  • Show HN: Name Checker – check your project name accross many sites
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023
    Very cool! Is this open-source? It would be cool to add a few sources to this (like https://hackage.haskell.org).
  • `cabal update` stuck here forever.
    1 project | /r/haskell | 22 May 2023
    Selected mirror http://hackage.haskell.org/
  • Haskell ecosystem questions.
    5 projects | /r/haskell | 17 Mar 2023
    3. https://hackage.haskell.org is the primary place
  • Why are haskell applications so obscure?
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 10 Jan 2023
    I used to see pandoc described as a "virus that makes people want to install Haskell", but I think someone must've figured out binary distribution.
  • Comparing ZIO to Haskell effects libraries like Polysemy?
    3 projects | /r/scala | 25 Aug 2022
    The closest analogue to ZIO is probably the RIO monad + Has* type classes from https://hackage.haskell.org . /package/rio . (But ZIO is a bit richer with the typed error channel.)
  • Just released: cabal 3.8.1.0
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 11 Aug 2022
    Not yet, first hackage-server has to be updated to Cabal-3.8.1.0, see this hackage-server ticket
  • What's the story with organizing a cental python docs hub?
    3 projects | /r/Python | 5 Aug 2022
    So I was working on this tool pysearch.com for doing deep semantic searches of python docs by program analysis inferred functionality when I noticed that every library's docs seem to be in a different format hosted in a different source. This would be fine if there was also a standard format hub for all the libraries on pypi or something, but it looks like even readthedocs doesn't contain everything. I find this a bit odd given the existence of tools like pydoc for doing something like this locally. Originally, I was hoping to find something like hackage for haskell, as I was hoping to build a natural language version of hoogle. In the meantime I've gotten pysearch to work by setting up custom rules for each doc, but this is kinda unsustainable.
  • Cabal package download 403 error
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 31 May 2022
    $ cabal get network-into -v3 ... /usr/bin/curl 'http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz' --output /tmp/transportAdapterGet19357-1 --location --write-out '%{http_code}' --user-agent 'cabal-install/3.6.2.0 (linux; x86_64)' --silent --show-error --dump-header /tmp/curl-headers19357-2.txt Exception Unexpected response 503 for http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz when using mirror http://hackage.haskell.org/ Selected mirror http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/Downloading package network-info-0.2.1/usr/bin/curl 'http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz' --output /tmp/transportAdapterGet19357-4 --location --write-out '%{http_code}' --user-agent 'cabal-install/3.6.2.0 (linux; x86_64)' --silent --show-error --dump-header /tmp/curl-headers19357-5.txt Exception Unexpected response 503 for http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz when using mirror http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/ Selected mirror http://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/hackage-mirror/ Downloading package network-info-0.2.1/usr/bin/curl 'http://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/hackage-mirror/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz' --output /tmp/transportAdapterGet19357-7 --location --write-out '%{http_code}' --user-agent 'cabal-install/3.6.2.0 (linux; x86_64)' --silent --show-error --dump-header /tmp/curl-headers19357-8.txt Unexpected response 403 for http://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/hackage-mirror/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz
  • Monthly Hask Anything (March 2022)
    5 projects | /r/haskell | 2 Mar 2022
    See https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/997.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hackage-search and hackage-server you can also consider the following projects:

envy - :angry: Environmentally friendly environment variables

hackage-repo-tool - Hackage security framework based on TUF (The Update Framework)

hackage-grep

hackage-diff - Compare the public API of different versions of a Hackage library

Cabal - Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install

hoogle - Haskell API search engine

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