# GoFound

Full-text search engine written in Go, run as a standalone HTTP server with its own index and admin interface.


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

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound
- docs: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/tree/main/docs

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: sea-team
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2022
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

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

### Content

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

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: binary download, compile from source, docker

### License

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

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2023-04-10

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 1595
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 13
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/docs/compile.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/docs/example.md (read 2026-10-28)
- adminUi: https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/docs/compile.md (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound/releases/latest (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound/releases/latest (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/sea-team/gofound/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

GoFound is a full-text search engine written in Go. It runs as a standalone server that keeps its index and documents in leveldb files in a data directory, and an HTTP API handles indexing and queries. Its web admin interface is built with Vue, element-ui and Vite, as the [compile guide](https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/docs/compile.md) describes.

The project offers a prebuilt binary, a build from source with the Go toolchain, and a Dockerfile in the repository. Once started, the server stays running and the API is called from the site or application that needs search, with the [example](https://github.com/sea-team/gofound/blob/main/docs/example.md) showing the start-up command.

## Worth knowing

The README, the documentation and the admin interface are written in Chinese. The project's own README compares it with Elasticsearch.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0