HoundSleuth

A python/GAE friendly external fulltext service.

Changes

• 1.0 - HoundSleuth is now API compatible with IndexTank (rip).

Usage

Add the HoundSleuth library to your application.

• For python use python/houndsleuth.py

Index your Data

import houndsleuth
index = houndsleuth.Index(HOUNDSLEUTH_INDEX, HOUNDSLEUTH_HOST)
index.add('MyUniqueID', {'text': 'My text to index.'})

# Also, give it a route in your WSGI app.  See example on github.

Search your Data

import houndsleuth
index = houndsleuth.Index(HOUNDSLEUTH_INDEX, HOUNDSLEUTH_HOST)
response = index.search('my text')

Running your own copy of the Demo

• Pull down input data from http://hawatian.com/shakespeare.xml.gz
• Import it with the provided bulkloader.
  • Something like:
    • bulkloader.py --filename=shakespeare.xml --config_file=bulkloader.yaml --application=houndsleuth-demo-app --url=http://localhost:8080/_ah/remote_api --kind=Work
    • bulkloader.py --filename=shakespeare.xml --config_file=bulkloader.yaml --application=houndsleuth-demo-app --url=http://localhost:8080/_ah/remote_api --kind=Scene