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coleifer
scout
Python2017–2021
coleifer / scout

scout

RESTful search server written in Python, powered by SQLite.

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316GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

RESTful search server written in Python, powered by SQLite.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I think replacing Elasticsearch with SQLite is a great idea. Even more if you use the full-text search functions that SQLite includes. I recommend checking out scout[0], which,…

polyrand used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-10-23 18:20:08 UTC to 2021-05-16 20:07:57 UTC.

012017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
polyrand·May 16, 2021Recommendation phrase
I think replacing Elasticsearch with SQLite is a great idea. Even more if you use the full-text search functions that SQLite includes. I recommend checking out scout[0], which, I think, can be a good replacement for Elasticsearch in some cases. I'm also working on an Elasticsearch replacement built on top of SQLite for my litements[1] project, but it will still take a few weeks to have a working version. [0] https://github.com/coleifer/scout [1] https://github.com/litements/
In Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (2017)

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