Xapian Users
The following organisations are known to use Xapian. If you are using Xapian or know someone who is, please add an entry to the wiki.
Categories
- Search Websites
- News Websites
- Community Websites
- Other Websites
- Desktop Search Applications
- Email Search Applications
- Web Based Applications
- Other Software
Search Websites
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Xapian is used with OpenBib to search
the library's OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
Languages: German
Database size: 17 million title entries split across 213 separate databases (2015-03-05)
News Websites
- Die Zeit - German NewspaperApplication: Searching news articles; also powers internal search facilities for newspaper staff.
Languages: German
Community Websites
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Application: Searching Hansard, the UK House of Commons Official Report; also email alerts
Languages: English
Database size: around 500,000 documents; 0.5G of source data. (2006-02-06) - Application: web api to gazetteer service, built using Search::Xapian
- Application: Searching UK Freedom of Information Act requests and responses
Other Websites
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Debian use Xapian for:
- Debian Website Search
Languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Database size: 61 thousand pages (2015-03-05) - Debian Mailing List Archive Search
Languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Database size: 6.3 million messages (2019-02-14) - Debian Wiki Search
Database size: over 17,000 pages (2019-02-14) - Searching their archive of software packages
Database size: over 46,000 packages (2015-03-05) - Debtags Package Tagging uses Xapian for its smart search and tag editor.
- Debian Website Search
- Qoop - Online Auction SiteApplication: Searching online auctions
Languages: Dutch
Database size: around 1.3 million documents (2015-03-05) - Application: Searching mailing list archive
- Application: Subtitle search for Doctor Who episodes.
- Application: Allows you to explore transcripts from early manned space missions. The code is available on github.
- Application: Secure and Private Email Hosting Services. Uses Xapian compiled with emscripten and running in the browser.
Desktop Search Applications
- Application: Recoll is a desktop full text search tool
- Application: Pinot is a personal search and metasearch tool for the Free Desktop
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Application: The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is building a low-cost laptop for the world's poorest children. The datastore search is implemented using
Xapian.
Email Search Applications
- Application: Fast, global-search and tag-based email system.
- Application: Mail archive search
- Application: A curses threads-with-tags style email client
Web Based Applications
- Application: Roundup is an Issue Tracker which can use Xapian for searching
- Application: Wiki software with Xapian search.
- Application: LXR, the Linux Cross Referencer.
- Application: Wiki software with Xapian search.
- Application: A library-oriented wiki engine which uses Xapian for its search.
- Application: A learning management system focused on ease of use and accessibility.
Other Software
- Application: Doxygen is a tool for generating documentation from annotated sources. It includes support for making that documentation searchable using Xapian.
- Application: Offline wikipedia reader