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🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
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Hybrid search engine, combining best features of text and semantic search worlds
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Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx#3
Search plugins for qBittorrent search feature
6.3K starsMay 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add qbittorrent/search-plugins#4
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLSemantic Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#5
Apache Lucene open-source search software
3.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/lucene#6
Semantic search over videos using Gemini Embedding 2 or Qwen3-VL.
4.3K starsJun 2, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add ssrajadh/sentrysearch#7
Jupyter Notebooks to help you get hands-on with Pinecone vector databases
3.0K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add pinecone-io/examples#8
Easily compute clip embeddings and build a clip retrieval system with them
2.8K starsMar 28, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add rom1504/clip-retrieval#9
Research project. A Memory solution for users, teams, and applications.
2.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC#Semantic Search
$ npx skills add microsoft/kernel-memory#10
PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
1.1K starsMay 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add pisa-engine/pisa#11
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#12
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
21K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add valeriansaliou/sonic#13
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#14
Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK!
12K starsMar 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#15
Semantic search and document parsing tools for the command line
1.8K starsMar 11, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add run-llama/semtools#16
21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI
112K starsJun 11, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
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