# Pagefind/pagefind

Static low-bandwidth search at scale

Repository: https://github.com/Pagefind/pagefind
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pagefind
Homepage: https://pagefind.app
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T23:32:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 55, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1584, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 143, "gap_med": 129.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5429, forks 205 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:18.001254+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, cli, ui-components, web-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: cli, python, cross-platform
- tags: static-site-search, client-side-search, low-bandwidth, rust, multilingual, no-infrastructure, search-ui, indexing, search, static-site-generator, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Pagefind/pagefind (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:18.001254+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:56:54.466884+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Pagefind/pagefind (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:18.001254+00:00, sha e363a3eede2d)
  - homepage: https://pagefind.app (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.274682+00:00, sha 46828320729e)
  - site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.318501+00:00, sha 01e1e960c5ee)
  - site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/running-pagefind (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.360638+00:00, sha 4867cbcfc88c)
  - site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/indexing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.403272+00:00, sha d7c890f8b612)
  - site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/metadata (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.450865+00:00, sha 113f34dd9723)
  - site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/filtering (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.488314+00:00, sha cddbe79f2c83)
  - site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/sorts (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.502986+00:00, sha e73c4890cc3d)
  - site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/weighting (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.504950+00:00, sha 2f613244fc93)
  - site_page: https://pagefind.app/docs/multilingual (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:19.506615+00:00, sha f8f1d04f0701)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.