Top 11 search-in-text Open-Source Projects

the_silver_searcher

59 25,720 0.0 C

A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

Project mention: Essential Command Line Tools for Developers | dev.to | 2024-01-15

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flexsearch

12 11,839 7.1 JavaScript

Next-Generation full text search library for Browser and Node.js
SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
flashtext

8 5,531 0.0 Python

Extract Keywords from sentence or Replace keywords in sentences.

Project mention: Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-14

I have some other comment on this thread where I point out why I don’t think it’s superficial. Would love to get your feedback on that if you feel like spending more time on this thread.
But it’s not obscure? FlashText was a somewhat popular paper at the time (2017) with a popular repo (https://github.com/vi3k6i5/flashtext). Their paper was pretty derivative of Aho-Corasick, which they cited. If you think they genuinely fucked up, leave an issue on their repo (I’m, maybe to your surprise lol, not the author).
Anyway, I’m not a fan of the whatabboutery here. I don’t think OG’s paper is up to snuff on its lit review - do you?

septum

15 368 6.4 Ada

Context-based code search tool

Project mention: Code Search Is Hard | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-10

https://github.com/pyjarrett/septum
The hardest part about getting code search right imo is grabbing the right amount of surrounding context, which septum is aimed at solving on a per-file basis.
Another one I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned is stack-graphs (https://github.com/github/stack-graphs), which tries to incrementally resolve symbolic relationships across the whole codebase. It powers github's cross-file precise indexing and conceptually makes a lot of sense, though I've struggled to get the open source version to work

trrex

2 134 3.5 Python

Efficient string matching with regular expressions (by mesejo)
sliceslice-rs

2 87 5.9 Rust

A fast implementation of single-pattern substring search using SIMD acceleration.
pg-tsquery

1 56 4.3 JavaScript

:mag: Parse user input into a valid PostgreSQL tsquery
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
textics

1 36 0.0 JavaScript

📉 JavaScript Text Statistics that counts lines, words, chars, and spaces.
libag

3 30 0.0 C

libag - The famous The Silver Searcher, but library 📚
note-cli

8 15 0.0 JavaScript

Markdown Indexing and Pcre Regular Expression Compatible Full Text Searching for Advanced Note Takers.
find-in

2 11 0.0 JavaScript

Yet another tool, written in JS for Searching Text in Files!

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).