Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

The way I got Swish to index org files was to create a script that
generated an xml file
(https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/06/Indexing-headlines-in-org-files-with-swish-e-with-laser-sharp-results/)
or html (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/03/Using-swish-e-to-index-org-files-as-html/)
that it could index. This is probably a general strategy for these tools.

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Roland Everaert <reveatwork@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am interested in a search/indexing engine targeting the org format,
>> too.
>>
>> My interest comes from the fact that I have a growing number of org
>> files and as org-mode has no file archiving feature, AFAIK, searching
>> needs more and more time to complete.
>>
>> Moving files, that are no more necessary, outside of my org-directories,
>> can be tedious and prone to moving the wrong file to the wrong location.
>>
>> Hence, an indexer could comes in handy, especially if it is optimised
>> for the Org format (i.e.: it knows what are categories, tags,
>> properties, etc in an Org file).
>
> I think this last point is key. Most full-text search engines provide
> config options for defining fields, or "facets", which in theory we
> could set up to parse tags/properties/timestamps. My guess is that any
> of the major contenders (solr, xapian, lucene) would work pretty much as
> well as any of the others -- for our purposes, they probably only differ
> in the details. Xapian might be considered "in the family" from a
> license standpoint, but I don't know that that matters too much.
>
> It would be fun to provide an Org indexing config for one of these
> engines, and then build the Agenda on top of it.


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