# Blast

Full-text search and indexing server written in Go on top of Bleve, with gRPC and RESTful APIs.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/blast/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/mosuka/blast
- docs: https://github.com/mosuka/blast/blob/master/README.md

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Minoru Osuka
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2018
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: search
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: bleve

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: compile from source with make

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2021-01-18

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 1074
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 3
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- status: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- status: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/Dockerfile (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- basedOn: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- headlessApi: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosuka/blast/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/mosuka/blast/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Blast is a full-text search and indexing server written in Go on top of Bleve. It provides gRPC and RESTful APIs and runs nodes that replicate their state with Raft consensus. The project builds from source with make, and a Docker image is available. Its [README](https://github.com/mosuka/blast/blob/master/README.md) opens with a notice that the project has been taken over by Phalanx.

## Worth knowing

The repository is archived on GitHub and the README says the project has not been maintained for a long time.

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