Beagle

Beagle is a search system for Linux and other such modern Unix-like systems, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, or Google Desktop.

Beagle is a Linux desktop-independent service which transparently and unobtrusively indexes your data in real-time.

Beagle includes a GNOME-based graphical tool and a web based interface for searching its indexes. It also provides programming interfaces (in C#, C, and Python) so that any application can plug into Beagle's searching and indexing power.

Beagle uses the Lucene indexing system from the Apache project and the prodigious Doug Cutting, ported to .NET by George Aroush.

Beagle 0.3.9

Price Free to download Size 1.8MB License X11/MIT License, Apache License Developer Joe Shaw, Jon Trowbridge, Nat Friedman, Todd Berman, Michael Levy, and more than a dozen other contributors Website beagle-project.org (parked) System Requirements Mono 1.2.4 or newer glib-sharp2 2.4.0 or newer for the indexing daemon gtk-sharp2 and gnome-sharp2 2.4.0 or newer (to use the GNOME-based user interface) NDesk-DBus 0.5.2 or newer. NDesk-DBus is used to query Hal for battery and AC status GMime 2.2.0 or newer. GMime is used to parse email messages sqlite3 libexif 0.5 or newer, for extracting metadata from image files taglib# for extracting metadata from audio files scrnsaver.h file from X zip glib-2.6 (or newer) and libxml-2.6.19 (or newer) Support Sites: Planet Beagle, Beagle Demos, Peagle, Beagle++ Selected Reviews: Softpedia

Beagle lets you find:

• Documents
• Emails and attachments
• Web history
• IM/IRC conversations
• Addressbook contacts
• Calender appointments
• Notes
• Source Code
• Images
• Music/Video files
• Archives and their contents
• Applications

Beagle supports the following data sources:

• File system
• Evolution mail, calendar, and addressbook
• Thunderbird mail, news, RSS feeds, and addressbook
• Korganizer events and TODOs
• KMail mail
• KAddressbook addressbook
• Gaim and Kopete instant messaging and IRC logs
• Firefox and Epiphany web pages (as you view them, through Browser Extension)
• Konqueror web pages
• Blam, Liferea (1.2) and Akregator RSS feeds
• Tomboy, KNotes, and Labyrinth notes
• Konversation IRC logs
• Opera Web History
• Empathy IM logs
  

and extracts text and metadata from the following file formats:

• Folders
• Office Documents
• OpenOffice.org (sxw, sxc, sxi and more)
• OpenDocument (odt, ods, odp)
• Microsoft Office (doc, xls, ppt)
• AbiWord (abw)
• Scribus (sla)
• Rich Text Format (rtf)
• PDF
• Text Documents
• HTML (xhtml, html, htm)
• Source code (Boo, C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Matlab, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scilab and Shell scripts)
• LaTeX
• Plain text (txt, any plain text file that isn't filed under any other category)
• Documentation/Help Documents
• Texinfo
• Man pages -gzip and bzip2 compressed man pages 
• Docbook
• Monodoc
• Windows help files (chm)
• Images (jpeg, png, bmp, tiff, gif, svg)
• F-Spot and Digikam tags in the images are also indexed
• Audio (mp3, ogg, flac, ape, mpc, m4a, aac, tracker, amiga audio, wma)
• m3u and pls playlists
• Video (mpeg, asf, wmv, mng, mp4, quicktime and other formats supported by MPlayer or Totem)
• Archive files (zip, tar, gzip, bzip2) and their contents
• Application launchers
• Linux packages (ebuild, rpm, dpkg)
• Generic XSLT files
  

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Last Updated Sunday, February 05 2012 @ 12:52 PM EST