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Top 23 Python Search Projects
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InfluxDB
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searxng
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
Project mention: Leta – privacy focused search engine from Mullvad | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-28What would be the difference from duckduckgo lite?
https://docs.searxng.org/
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txtai
💡 All-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows
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Project mention: Whoogle Search no longer available after recent Google JavaScript requirement | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-18
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Project mention: Show HN: Trieve CLI – Terminal-Based LLM Agent Loop with Search Tool for PDFs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-18
https://github.com/Future-House/paper-qa?tab=readme-ov-file#... :
> PaperQA2 is engineered to be the best agentic RAG model for working with scientific papers.
> [ Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, ]
paperqa-zotero: https://github.com/lejacobroy/paperqa-zotero
The Oracle of Zotero is a fork of paperqa-zotero fork FAISS and langchain:
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R2R
SoTA production-ready AI retrieval system. Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a RESTful API.
Project mention: Show HN: Toller – A Python library for robust async calls | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-13I built this after a painful incident with one of my R2R (https://github.com/SciPhi-AI/R2R) clients where Azure OpenAI went down unexpectedly. While we were technically propagating errors correctly, we lacked clean, accessible error patterns that would allow the client to implement proper mitigation strategies. They were fully dependent on our infrastructure to handle the outage, with no way to gracefully degrade or implement custom fallbacks.
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Project mention: Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-15
https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett | https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-co...
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Windrecorder
Windrecorder is a memory search app by records everything on your screen in small size, to let you rewind what you have seen, query through OCR text or image description, and get activity statistics. (by yuka-friends)
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swirl-search
Swirl is an open-source search platform that uses AI to search multiple content and data sources simultaneously and return AI-ranked results. And provides summaries of your answers from searches using LLMs. It's a one-click, easy-to-use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Solution.
Project mention: How These Free Open Source Projects Can Jumpstart Your Career (No Experience? No Problem!) | dev.to | 2024-12-13Give SWIRL a try: https://github.com/swirlai/swirl-search
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datasketch
MinHash, LSH, LSH Forest, Weighted MinHash, HyperLogLog, HyperLogLog++, LSH Ensemble and HNSW
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twikit
Twitter API Scraper | Without an API key | Twitter Internal API | Free | Twitter scraper | Twitter Bot
Project mention: Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-14Unpopular opinion here... If you tread carefully you'll most likely not succeed. I am not American and I know you guys like to sue eachother for putting cats in microwaves and stuff so maybe this is not great opinion to have in America at the current moment.
I would go for it and put a disclaimer, or I would just incorporate in a country where there's no issues with these things.
all this is hard of course to provide good value, but worthwhile.
Twitters' cost is insane right now, I had quite a few ideas for twitter integrations but they would easily cost thousands per month just to access their API.
I looked into https://github.com/d60/twikit - might not be suitable but you can definitely play around with it. Just don't use your official account as I got shadow banned using it unfortunately.
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openrecall
OpenRecall is a fully open-source, privacy-first alternative to proprietary solutions like Microsoft's Windows Recall. With OpenRecall, you can easily access your digital history, enhancing your memory and productivity without compromising your privacy.
Another similar project: https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall
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Project mention: Show HN: Scraper for job listings directly from company websites | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-07
jobfunnel is FOSS and accepting contributions: https://github.com/PaulMcInnis/JobFunnel
Currently supports indeed, in the past supported glassdoor and others.
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RecoverPy
Interactively find and recover deleted or :point_right: overwritten :point_left: files from your terminal
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Project mention: Show HN: Trieve CLI – Terminal-Based LLM Agent Loop with Search Tool for PDFs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-18
https://github.com/neuml/paperai :
> paperai is a combination of a txtai embeddings index and a SQLite database with the articles. Each article is parsed into sentences and stored in SQLite along with the article metadata. Embeddings are built over the full corpus.
paperai has a
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Show HN: Trieve CLI – Terminal-Based LLM Agent Loop with Search Tool for PDFs
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Search projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | algorithms | 24,571 |
| 2 | searxng | 19,666 |
| 3 | txtai | 11,078 |
| 4 | whoogle-search | 10,755 |
| 5 | paper-qa | 7,477 |
| 6 | R2R | 6,973 |
| 7 | buku | 6,728 |
| 8 | search-plugins | 5,217 |
| 9 | tribler | 5,005 |
| 10 | elasticsearch-py | 4,303 |
| 11 | elasticsearch-dsl-py | 3,868 |
| 12 | django-haystack | 3,653 |
| 13 | Windrecorder | 3,259 |
| 14 | image-match | 2,965 |
| 15 | swirl-search | 2,790 |
| 16 | datasketch | 2,704 |
| 17 | twikit | 2,718 |
| 18 | openrecall | 2,208 |
| 19 | JobFunnel | 2,026 |
| 20 | twitter-api-client | 1,795 |
| 21 | RecoverPy | 1,498 |
| 22 | paperai | 1,414 |
| 23 | Memacs | 1,059 |
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