Whoosh
Pure-Python full-text indexing and searching library.
Whoosh is a pure-Python library for full-text indexing and searching, installed with pip. Matt Chaput created and maintains it, and its documentation is hosted on Read the Docs. The project publishes releases to PyPI and tags them in its repository, which has no GitHub releases.
Worth knowing
The latest release on PyPI dates from 2016, and the last commit on the default branch is from 2022. A community fork, whoosh-reloaded, is published under its own name. The project’s README does not declare the project ended.
Identity
- Status
- Stub
- Maintainer
- Matt Chaput2
- Maintained by
- Individual2
- First release
- 20093
Rendering and deploy
- Install with
- pip2
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-28: links, Written in
github.com/mchaput/whoosh - 2026-10-28: links, Maintainer, Maintained by, Categories, Runtime, License, Install with
github.com/mchaput/whoosh/blob/main/README.md - 2026-10-28: First release, Current major version, Last release
pypi.org/pypi/whoosh/json - 2026-10-28: GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/mchaput/whoosh - 2026-10-28: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/mchaput/whoosh/contributors?per_page=1