Questions tagged [search]
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Python package to search for a home on AirBnB
I am looking for a python package, which I can use to search for homes presented in AirBnB. I want to specify the location (e.g. 'Geneva, Switzerland'), and the checkin/checkout date. I then want to ...
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GUI for searching the content of multiple large text files or PDFs?
I have a few dozen PDFs, each of which are very large. Specifically:
These PDFs total to about 15GB.
These PDFs are primarily scanned images of textual documents, but they do contain the text data (...
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Gmail extensions or alternate gmail user agent for searching/sorting
I've run across two situation using the web interface for gmail that are becoming a major PITA.
A: Label searching: I really like conversation view. But if I search for the negation of a label, I ...
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Software / API to track new concepts or ideas from web searches
Is there any Software or API of Google,Twitter or other search Engines or Social Networks to track emergent or new concepts/ideas (words) or new combinations, made from the searches in the web, but ...
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Is there a Google API that returns results to people search query?
I'm trying to get a list of people that meet specific criteria from the web, like:
"comedians near me"
"musicians near me"
etc.
I need the results to be a structured list of artists (for ...
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Wiki + tags + search by tags
I need a MediaWiki-like user-editable CMS that supports pages tagging. The same tag system as in the Wordpress. And I also need a search-by-tags page which lists all unique tags and allows visitor to ...
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What are some good Javascript front end (web page) faceted search libraries as alternatives to filtrify?
I have a website that uses filtrify to provide faceted searching through a very long, involved list. This is working great and is a fantastic web-based, front-end only, Javascript project that takes ...
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Utility to search for text in a directory and display the matching lines as well as nearby lines
I currently use Agent Ransack to search for text in files in a directory. It will list all files containing that text in the left pane. If I click on one of those files, it will show all of the ...
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Video file duplicate finder (based on length/duration)
I am looking for a program that will find duplicate videos based on duration (eg number of seconds) and not based on size/MD5/thumbnails/etc. This is a very simple concept but I find it impossible to ...
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'Intelligent' knowledge management software with guided search and wiki
Some specific needs I would like to address:
Collection of hyperlinks and keywords (possibly with content snapshot and tagging)
Guided search
look up content on its own (self-driven), based on ...
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Linux text editor with server-side search over SSH
I want a Linux programmer's text editor with the possibility to search in a directory on remote server over SSH (I assume that the editor should call grep on the remote host and parse grep output.)
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Is there an application that allows to search across Evernote, Todoist, Google Keep, Twitter
I extensively use web applications for organizing my thoughts and notes, some of those go to Evernote, some go to Todois, some are left in Google Drive, something is on Twitter.
I wonder if there an ...
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bookmarks & highlights in one place with link to pdf files
All text in one place with many file extensions support or just pdf format. For example : many books in PDF format with possibility to highlight or bookmarks and than search all of them from one ...
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How to pin all locations matching a search keyword in a map?
I would like to know all the locations in a certain area (for example an state, province, or city) that have a certain word in their names(all streets, restaurants, companies, etc) google maps does ...
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Are there any good tools for applying searchable metadata tags to large documents?
I've googled this extensively, but there doesn't appear to be a common solution, or my keywords are inadequate.
We have a few large PDFs on the order of a few thousand pages each that describe some ...
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“Filter as you type” a large table (>100K rows)
I have a large table (>100K rows) that looks like this:
Movie | Genres
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Inception | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Dark Knight ...
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thunderbird addon that searches for HTML in email
I often need to search for specific details about an html-formatted email. As an example, I'd like to be able to filter by presence of an image source name (<img src="...">). However, even ...
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Software for communicating through google chrome (or any browser)
I don't know if there is a way to do this, but I assume there is a hackish way (as there almost always is).
Say I am logged into Google Chrome using my gmail (and so all my web extensions, ...
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Is there a program in windows which can search menu items like Ubuntu Unity?
In unity dash, you can search commands in menu bar of a program, is there a similar program on windows?
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Searchable multiple PDFs on website
I have a large number of PDFs that need to be published online.
Currently I use a database to store keywords for each PDF (as well as other meta data and the filename in order to provide a link).
I ...
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What tool should I use to find and move a large number of pictures in a bunch of folders on a hard drive?
Like to the tune of 200k pictures. I think many of them are probably duplicates. I'd like to move them all to one folder and look at them.
find all pictures on a hard drive, recursively; hundreds of ...
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Solution to search browser-URL-history first before the rest of the WWW
Yesterday I spent a whole day researching a problem I made when setting up a new laptop for Dual Boot with Linux--I deleted a required partition before I created recovery media for a system pre-...
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Travel-oriented map program or app built around advanced queries and relevant data
Google Maps and Apple Maps are both missing something critical for cities: public transit stations.
I opened up Apple Maps and all of the transit (train/bus) stations are missing. There's no UI ...
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Software for performing a reverse search - matching a body of text to a known phrase
I have a big list of known phrases. Given a body of text (Say a tweet) I'd like to see if it contains a known phrase from a large list. I'm sure something like this must exist (perhaps from the new ...
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Time based video search engine
I have a collection of demonstration videos and I would like to be able to store what happens in the videos so I can view snippets from them later on. each video might contain multiple patterns made ...
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To search almost any file based on context on Windows
I would like to get a software recommendation for searching files on Windows with advanced search features. Since the Search bar of Windows 10 is pretty slow and is not able to identify files faster, ...
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Utility that can search an image for a specific RGB code?
I'm trying to find a utility that can search an image for a specific RGB code and then highlight the exact pixels with that color code.
I can only find utilities that will tell me the RGB code if I ...
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Search & Replace Software which accept replace words count more than 234,206 characters
I have to replace words in files/folders with replace-words length (234,206 words).
Notepad++ does not allow replace-word-count more than 2,047 words.
TextCrawler 3 does not allow replace-word-count ...
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Search tool for scanned PDF documents and images
I am looking for a tool that is able to search for text in scanned PDF documents and images. I have tried Evernote and really liked it, but I do not want to have personal documents on someone elses ...
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Getting to know related search queries from google
Are there any tools out there, that I can use to know popularly searched queries through google ? Say, if I want queries pertaining to iPhone battery or ios performance that people might have searched ...
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Front-end for Windows Search Service
The Microsoft Windows Search Service itself is pretty powerful and contains a wealth of indexed information with which to find files. Of particular utility is its support for IFilter which allows ...
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I need a software that lets me create an excel spreadsheet with mp3 file names and their descriptions
What I mean by that, is something which plays me a sound file, lets me describe it, plays the next one, you get the point. And until the folder ends. When all of this is done, it generates a excel ...
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App to Search PDF contents / business intelligence
I'm with a task to deploy "something" capable of doing what Google does, but for PDFs. Could be something like "Google Desktop Search", but ideally the app would run on a server.
Here's some ...
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URL Scanner to find links on Google
Can someone recommend a software for searching links on Google and other search engines?
E.g. you would specify a regex for a link and the software would run on a schedule. Then it would email you ...
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Free alternative to Windows Search (full-text indexed search) or non-Java alternative to DocFetcher
I search an alternative to Windows Search for fast indexed fulltext search in text files, source code, ebooks (pdf, fb2, djvu) and, maybe, office formats.
I don't want to use standard Windows Search,...
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Search bar for opened windows on Windows
For keyboard oriented people ALT + TAB is still an unhappy solution when you have tons of windows open, even more when the windows are on multiple desktops.
Today, the fastest way to move around is ...
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Wiki with prioritized keyword indexing (tags)
We need an in-house wiki for a technical piece of software. The problem we're having is finding information. Full text searches fail miserably, finding 1,000 pages when only 10 are relevant and never ...
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Python module to search the web quickly
I'm working on a chatbot, and I need a Python 3 module (or library) for searching the web. I tried pygoogle, but it gave me just URLs; I tried xgoogle, but it's a Python 2 module that 2to3 didn't ...
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Search documents & display results in snippet view like Google books?
I'm looking for any software that can search keywords in documents (at least text files, but hopefully PDFs) in a folder (or even within a single file) and show the result in snippet view like Google ...
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Spatial search server, to quickly answer “What points near me?” requests
I have about a million points like this:
Latitude
Longitude
Text (short text of less than 128 characters)
I am writing an app that must quickly show what points are around the user.
User: I am at ...
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Download Image from Keywords
I have around 50000 sentences, I want relevant images closely or partially related to those sentences. Before google image search APIv1 was best suited for my need as now it is deprecated need to find ...
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Github project filter
I want to monitor what Github projects had recent activity – but want to limit that to topics I'm interested in. Say, I want to see what Android apps are currently active – but I'm not interested in ...
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Graphical tool to search Subversion revisions of a file
I deleted an unused function from my code some time ago, and now I would like to add it back in again.
The check-in history does not help me. is there any tool, with a GUI, which I can use to search ...
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Software to search XML files which match an XPath
I've got some XML files which are .NET configuration files (app.config, web.config). You can read the specification on MSDN.
My problem is very specific but it can easily be generalized.
In a client ...
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Firefox extension to close the Find Bar when clicking anywhere on the page
Can anyone recommend a Firefox extension that will close the Find Bar when the user clicks anywhere on the page?
Recommendations for gratis or commercial extensions are welcome.
Smaller and simpler ...
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Is there any Google Chrome extension that adds search sights like Findbar Tweak extension for Firefox? [duplicate]
I am searching for an alternative to "Findbar Tweak" extension that is available on Firefox. I need something similar that runs on Google Chrome.
Mainly, I'm only looking for a feature that allows me ...
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What programming language should I use to generate word lists of Google Ngram raw data
I want to download a portion of data from Google Ngram's corpora and run tests. The data will likely approach 500 gigs (which would almost fill up my hard drive...)
I normally use Excel VBA for this ...
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Searching the menu bar in Microsoft Windows
I am looking for a program that can search for and activate application menu items for the frontmost application.
It should work on Microsoft Windows. Gratis is preferable.
On Mac OS X 10.10 I use ...
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user friendly search function for spreadsheet/database
I am trying to build a site that will list classes available in the area. I would like users to be able to search and filter based on subject and distance from their location. This would require ...
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Search the internet for pictures by keyword and automatically download a set number of the results in the original resolutions (Ubuntu 14.04)?
This is the task I would like to be able to perform:
Search for images on the internet by a keyword
Automatically download a specified number of the search results in the original image resolutions ...
