tinysearch/tinysearch

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

tinysearch is a lightweight full-text search engine for static websites, written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly to run entirely in the browser. It produces a compact self-contained index (~2 kB per article) that works with static site generators like Jekyll, Hugo, and Zola as an alternative to lunr.js or external services like Algolia.

Use cases

• add search to a static website without a backend
• replace lunr.js with a smaller client-side search
• add full-text search to a Hugo or Jekyll blog
• self-hosted search without external services like Algolia or Google
• compact offline search index for a small blog
• client-side search using WebAssembly

When to choose

• your static site is small to medium sized (hundreds of posts)
• you want zero external dependencies and no server-side search
• payload size matters and JavaScript-heavy solutions like lunr.js are too large
• you use a static site generator and can produce a JSON index

When to avoid

• your site is very large (thousands of articles) since the whole index ships as one binary
• you need fuzzy matching, ranking, or advanced query features
• you need server-side search or dynamic content indexing
• you need prefix search on body text with the xor8 indexer

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

search-engine cli wasm web-development wasm browser cli cross-platform static-site-search bloom-filter rust wasm client-side-search jekyll hugo zola search static-site-generators

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