Booting Python (Pyodide) and installing Whoosh…
Try:
python
search AND pure
index*
"full text"
What is this? This page loads
Pyodide (CPython compiled to WebAssembly),
installs the real Whoosh wheel with pip, builds an in-memory index
from a small corpus, and runs your queries — with BM25 ranking and result
highlighting — with no server. That's the whole point of Whoosh:
it's an embedded, pure-Python search library.
Because Whoosh is pure Python, the same code runs on your laptop, your server, PyPy, and (as you can see) the browser.
Add search to your app
Recipes & guides
- Autocomplete & prefix search →
- Spelling & “did you mean?” →
- Highlighting snippets →
- Faceted search & counts →
- Analyzer recipes →
- Search a pandas DataFrame →
- Incremental index sync →
- Performance tuning →
RAG & AI
Compare & migrate
- Whoosh vs SQLite FTS5 →
- Whoosh vs Tantivy →
- Whoosh vs Elasticsearch →
- Migrate from SQLite FTS5 →
- Fix: ImportError on Python 3.10+ →