Pagefind/pagefind
Static low-bandwidth search at scale observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
84/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 55
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 129.0
- age_days: 1584
- days_rel: 143
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 5
Adoption not part of the score
5429 stars · 205 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Pagefind is a fully static search library written in Rust that indexes built HTML output and generates a chunked, low-bandwidth search bundle served directly from static hosting. It exposes a JavaScript search API and prebuilt UI components, enabling full-text search on sites with tens of thousands of pages without any search infrastructure.
Use cases
- add search to a static site without a backend
- implement client-side full-text search on a large documentation site
- add multilingual search to a Hugo or Astro site
- search 10,000+ pages from the browser with minimal bandwidth
- add a search modal to a static website with prebuilt UI components
- index a static site after build with filters and metadata
- host site search with no server or search infrastructure
When to choose
- your site is fully static and you want search with zero backend or hosted search service
- you need fast, low-bandwidth search over a large (10k+ page) static site
- you want multilingual search that works out of the box from HTML lang attributes
- you want prebuilt, customizable search UI components plus a JS API
When to avoid
- you need server-side search, dynamic content indexing, or crawling of non-static pages
- your content lives in a database or API rather than built HTML files
- you need advanced query features like faceted search at scale or fuzzy typo tolerance beyond what Pagefind offers
Facets
library · maturity active
search-engine cli ui-components web-framework web-development frontend cli python cross-platform static-site-search client-side-search low-bandwidth rust multilingual no-infrastructure search-ui indexing search static-site-generator web-server nodejs
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/Pagefind/pagefind · fetched 2026-08-28 · e363a3eede2d
- homepage: https://pagefind.app · fetched 2026-08-29 · 46828320729e
- site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 01e1e960c5ee
- site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/running-pagefind · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4867cbcfc88c
- site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/indexing · fetched 2026-08-29 · d7c890f8b612
- site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/metadata · fetched 2026-08-29 · 113f34dd9723
- site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/filtering · fetched 2026-08-29 · cddbe79f2c83
- site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/sorts · fetched 2026-08-29 · e73c4890cc3d
- site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/weighting · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2f613244fc93
- site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/multilingual · fetched 2026-08-29 · f8f1d04f0701
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Pagefind/pagefind | main | 84 |
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