What's the best Django search app? [closed]

Answer 1

I am searching for the same thing, as are a lot of other people. Let's hope that django.contrib.search will be added soon.

In the meantime, this is what I found:

• http://code.google.com/p/djangosearch/
• http://code.google.com/p/django-sphinx/
• http://code.google.com/p/djapian/
• http://code.google.com/p/django-search-lucene/
• http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/

To me, most look quite complicated and, frankly, a little daunting to implement. I'd be interested to learn what you think of these.

Answer 2

I think I am going to have to give a shout out to Djapian.

It is rock-solid...just pull down a source distribution and peek inside. Top notch code, not very many comments tho..

It's still a young software project, but I think the django community should throw it's weight behind this one.

Answer 3

Thanks Garth. I had seen that djangosearch wanted to become the official Django search, but I was hesitant to use it because I couldn't find any documentation! Luckily, there's a README in subversion that I hadn't seen before, and it makes the API look very cool:

# set up the model
class Event(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    date = models.DateField()
    is_outdoors = models.BooleanField()

    index = djangosearch.ModelIndex(text=['title'], 
                                    additional=['date', 'is_outdoors'])

# run a search
results = Event.index.search("django conference")

Answer 4

The google code page for djangosearch indicates that it is no longer under active development, and suggests haystack or solango.

Answer 5

You might want to look at Django Solr search (aka "Solango") which comes with some nice documentation to get you started...

Answer 6

I just needed a very quick solution that was no-fuss for an internal app.

I found the article Adding search to Django in a snap, and that worked splendid for me!

Obviously it lacks the speed, scalability and features of the real projects like Haystack, but this one is easier to set up, and I don't really need anything else than keyword AND-search.