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DocFetcher
Desktop search application
DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. -
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Bowtie, an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner for short DNA sequences (reads) from next-gen sequencers. Please cite: Langmead B, et al. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biol 10:R25.
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ripgrep
Regex pattern directory search tool that respects your .gitignore
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that actively searches the directory you're currently in for a regex pattern. By default, ripgrep will ignore your .gitignore and skip hidden files or directories and binary files automatically. ripgrep has first class support on Windows, macOS and Linux, with binary downloads available for every release. ripgrep is similar to other popular search tools like The Silver Searcher, ack and grep. ripgrep supports arbitrary input preprocessing filters which could be PDF text extraction, less supported decompression, decrypting, automatic encoding detection and so on. In other words, use ripgrep if you like speed, filtering by default, fewer bugs and Unicode support. -
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CLucene is a C++ port of Lucene: the high-performance, full-featured text search engine written in Java. CLucene is faster than lucene as it is written in C++.
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Meilisearch
An open-source, lightning-fast, and hyper-relevant search engine
An open-source, lightning-fast, and hyper-relevant search engine that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow. Meilisearch is a flexible and powerful user-focused search engine that can be added to any website or application. Search-as-you-type returns answers in less than 50 milliseconds. That's faster than the blink of an eye! Deploy in a matter of minutes. Smart presets let you start searching through your data with zero configuration. Send data to Meilisearch however you want, no need to match a schema or convert your dataset to a compatible format. Everyone makes mistakes! If typos break your search experience, many users will leave thinking what they were looking for just wasn't there. Start searching through your dataset in less than 5 minutes and quickly connect your codebase to Meilisearch with our official libraries. Meilisearch is designed to work out-of-the-box, no configuration needed. -
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FSearch
A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
FSearch is a blazing-fast file search utility for Linux inspired by Windows’ Everything Search Engine, built to allow users to locate files and directories instantly by name rather than content. It achieves its high performance by indexing the filesystem and updating that index in real time, so as you create, rename, or delete files the results stay up to date without noticeable lag. The intuitive user interface supports incremental search — where results filter as you type — plus features like regular expressions, case-sensitivity options, and customizable indexing scopes, making it both powerful and accessible. Designed with GTK and written in C, it integrates nicely with desktop environments like GNOME, XFCE, and Cinnamon while still being lightweight and resource-efficient. Developers and power users appreciate FSearch for dramatically reducing the time it takes to find files compared to traditional search tools, especially on large partitions. -
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searchmonkey
Powerful desktop search app for Windows, Linux and Mac
Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale. -
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dirsearch
Web path scanner
An advanced command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers, AKA web path scanner. Wordlist is a text file, each line is a path. About extensions, unlike other tools, dirsearch only replaces the %EXT% keyword with extensions from -e flag. For wordlists without %EXT% (like SecLists), -f | --force-extensions switch is required to append extensions to every word in wordlist, as well as the /. To use multiple wordlists, you can separate your wordlists with commas. Example: wordlist1.txt,wordlist2.txt. Default values for dirsearch flags can be edited in the configuration file: default.conf. The thread number (-t | --threads) reflects the number of separated brute force processes. And so the bigger the thread number is, the faster dirsearch runs. By default, the number of threads is 30, but you can increase it if you want to speed up the progress. -
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Elasticsearch
A Distributed RESTful Search Engine
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine that lets you store, search and analyze with ease at scale. It lets you perform and combine many types of searches; it scales seamlessly, and offers answers incredibly fast with search results you can rank based on a variety of factors. Elasticsearch can be used for a wide variety of use cases, from maps and metrics to site search and workplace search, and with all data types. -
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truffleHog
Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets
truffleHog searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history. TruffleHog runs behind the scenes to scan your environment for secrets like private keys and credentials, so you can protect your data before a breach occurs. Secrets can be found anywhere, so TruffleHog scans more than just code repositories, including SaaS and internally hosted software. With support for custom integrations and new integrations added all the time, you can secure your secrets across your entire environment. TruffleHog is developed by a team entirely comprised of career security experts. Security is our passion and primary concern, and all features are developed with best practices in mind. TruffleHog enables you to track and manage secrets within our intuitive management interface, including links to exactly where secrets have been found. TruffleHog runs quietly in the background, continuously scanning your environment for secrets. -
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OpenSearchServer Search Engine
An open source search engine with RESTFul API and crawlers
OpenSearchServer is a powerful, enterprise-class, search engine program. Using the web user interface, the crawlers (web, file, database, etc.) and the client libraries (REST/API , Ruby, Rails, Node.js, PHP, Perl) you will be able to integrate quickly and easily advanced full-text search capabilities in your application: Full-text with basic semantic, join queries, boolean queries, facet and filter, document (PDF, Office, etc.) indexation, web scrapping,etc. OpenSearchServer runs on Windows and Linux/Unix/BSD. -
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Katalog
Catalog your devices to search, analyze, and backup your files.
Catalog your devices to search, analyze, and backup your files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices - Search and explore files even when the devices are disconnected - Organize and backup your collection of files, and get statistics User documentation: - Get started/Tutorial: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/tutorial - Download (Linux Flathub): https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.stephanecouturier.Katalog - Documentation: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/Overview - Development: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/Development-Overview - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 -
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Search and replace operations on file content accross multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings. Run grep like extractions to condense or rearrange sources, or perform bulk file renaming.
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MiniSearch
Minimalist web-searching platform with an AI assistant
MiniSearch is a minimalist web search application with a built-in AI assistant that runs largely inside the browser for privacy-focused information retrieval. The project combines metasearch capabilities with local or remote language model inference to provide conversational answers alongside traditional search results. It is designed to be lightweight, easy to deploy with Docker, and configurable for both personal and hosted use cases. The platform supports browser-level integration so users can set it as their default search engine for quick access. Its architecture emphasizes privacy by avoiding tracking and minimizing data collection while still enabling advanced AI features. Overall, MiniSearch targets users who want a self-hosted, Perplexity-style search experience with strong control over data and models. -
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Sonic
Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend
Sonic is a super fast and lightweight, schema-less search backend that can be used in place of super-heavy and full-featured search backends like Elasticsearch. It is able to normalize language search queries, auto-complete search queries and offer the most relevant results. Being an identifier index rather than a document index, when queried it provides IDs that can be used to refer to matched documents in an external database. -
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fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
fd is a program to find entries in your filesytem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases. First, to get an overview of all available command line options, you can either run fd -h for a concise help message or fd --help for a more detailed version. fd is designed to find entries in your filesystem. The most basic search you can perform is to run fd with a single argument: the search pattern. Instead of just showing the search results, you often want to do something with them. fd provides two ways to execute external commands for each of your search results: the -x/--exec option runs an external command for each of the search results (in parallel), or the -X/--exec-batch option launches the external command once, with all search results as arguments. -
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Empty Directories Finder
Find, select, delete empty folders. Use the ignore list and others.
Empty Directories Finder expires empty directories and allows you to conveniently select the required directories before deleting. New version available. Improved user interface. -
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ATSCAN SCANNER
Advanced dork Search & Mass Exploit Scanner
Advanced Mass Search / Dork / Exploitation Scanner. -
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Cerebro
Open-source productivity booster with a brain
Cerebro is an open source electron-based productivity software that lets you search and see everything you need on your PC in one place. With just a few clicks you can search on your machine or on the internet everything you need; see everything you need without having to open another application; and easily find and use what you want. -
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Ransack
Object-based searching
Create search forms for your Ruby on Rails application with Ransack! Ransack is available in two modes: simple and advanced, allowing you to create either simple or advanced search forms. Simple mode works much like MetaSearch and is very easy to set up. The advanced mode makes use of Rails' nested attributes functionality in order to generate complex queries with nested AND/OR groupings, etc. This involves more complexity but does produce some very interesting search interfaces and puts more power in the hands of users. Ransack is compatible with Rails 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0, and on Ruby 2.3 and later. -
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A small application for listing the contents(files/folders/extensions) of a folder. The results includes file name length/full path length/maximum extensions. It supports exporting a report in .txt/.csv format with fully customizable contents.
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Apache Lucene
Apache Lucene open-source search software
The Apache Lucene™ project develops open-source search software. The project releases a core search library, named Lucene™ core, as well as PyLucene, a Python binding for Lucene. Lucene Core is a Java library providing powerful indexing and search features, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities. The PyLucene sub-project provides Python bindings for Lucene Core. The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are defined by collaborative consensus-based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high-quality software that leads the way in its field. Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Apache PyLucene, Apache Open Relevance Project and their respective logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. -
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Career-Ops
AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code
Career Ops is an open-source platform designed to help individuals manage their job search process with a structured, operations-style approach that treats career development like a pipeline. It provides a system for organizing job applications, tracking progress across different stages, and maintaining visibility into opportunities, much like a lightweight CRM tailored for job seekers. The project emphasizes clarity and accountability, enabling users to monitor applications, follow-ups, and outcomes in a centralized environment. It is typically built with modern web technologies, allowing for easy customization and self-hosting by developers who want full control over their data. Career Ops focuses on reducing the chaos and fragmentation that often comes with job searching by introducing a repeatable workflow that can be iterated and improved over time. It also supports the idea of data-driven job searching. -
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GitHub search with Manticore Search
Demo: GitHub search with Manticore Search
GitHub search with Manticore Search. The Manticore GitHub Issue Search tool allows users to search through GitHub issues using Manticore Search, a powerful full-text search engine designed for large datasets and real-time processing. It integrates Manticore's capabilities with GitHub to offer fast and efficient searches within repositories. -
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TNTSearch
A fully featured full text search engine written in PHP
TNTSearch is a full-text search engine written in PHP, designed to be integrated into Laravel and other PHP applications. It offers real-time, efficient indexing and searching of textual data using SQLite as its storage backend. TNTSearch is highly configurable and supports features like fuzzy searching, customizable ranking algorithms, and boolean search, making it a powerful tool for adding search functionality to websites and applications.
