Jupyter Lab search notebooks

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Hi,

Can you search notebooks with keywords?

e.g. search “keras” to show every notebooks that includes “keras”

Thanks

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Unfortunately, there is no easy, integrated way to quickly add search right now by pip installing something that I know of.

There have been a number of efforts at integrating whoosh, using databases, using git, etc. but none of them have really “stuck,” probably because there isn’t a unified way to access it.

A path to making this possible would be to:

  • pick an existing search API
  • pick a way to advertise the search API, e.g. OpenSearch
  • get it into the ContentsManager API (there is an old spec)
  • implement it for the default LargeFileContentsManager
    • here, whoosh might be appropriate, as it is pure python, and has no dependencies
    • but sqlite would also be serviceable
  • get it into JupyterLab
  • get it into a popular “scalable” ContentsManager, e.g. pgcontents
    • postgres already has good full text search
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Wow, thanks. It’s good to know that the simple search doesn’t exist.