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π Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
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$ npx skills add apache/lucene#6
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$ npx skills add lucaong/minisearch#8
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$ npx skills add thesephist/monocle#9
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$ npx skills add pisa-engine/pisa#10
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$ npx skills add F9y4ng/GreasyFork-Scripts#11
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
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$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#12
π¦ Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
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$ npx skills add valeriansaliou/sonic#13
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$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#14
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$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#15
π A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.
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$ npx skills add oramasearch/orama#16
A flexible, performant and reliable search database without the AI bullshit.
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