# spyglass-search/spyglass

A personal search engine:  Create a searchable library from your personal documents, interests, and more!

Repository: https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/spyglass
Homepage: https://docs.spyglass.fyi
Language: Rust
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: rust, rust-lang, search-engine, tauri-app, cross-platform, tantivy
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-06-27T20:37:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 28, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1750, "days_push": 432, "days_rel": 653, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2721, forks 74 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:15.548736+00:00)

## What it is
Spyglass is a cross-platform desktop personal search engine that crawls and indexes your local documents, saved web content, and connected services (GitHub, Google Drive, Reddit, Calendar) into a fast, private searchable library. It is built in Rust with Tauri and the Tantivy search library.

## Use cases
- search my personal documents locally
- build a private search index of websites I care about
- avoid SEO spam when searching the web
- search my GitHub stars and Reddit saves
- index my Google Drive docs for offline search
- create a personal wiki and docs search library

## When to choose
- you want a private, local-first search index of your own files and saved web content
- you want to cut through SEO spam by searching curated sources
- you want a cross-platform desktop app with no cloud dependency

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - the project is no longer in active development
- you need a hosted or multi-user search solution
- you need Gmail or YouTube indexing, which were never completed

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: search-engine, web-scraping
- domain: self-hosted, privacy, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform, rust
- tags: personal-search-engine, local-first, tantivy, tauri, desktop-app, full-text-search, lenses, indexing, search, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- spyglass-search/spyglass (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:15.548736+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 2026-08-30T02:15:12.910300+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:15.548736+00:00, sha 73e76e75ed7e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.