sist2

sist2 (Simple incremental search tool)

Warning: sist2 is in early development

Features

• Fast, low memory usage, multi-threaded
• Portable (all its features are packaged in a single executable)
• Extracts text from common file types*
• Generates thumbnails*
• Incremental scanning
• Automatic tagging from file attributes via user scripts
• Recursive scan inside archive files **

* See format support
** See Archive files

Getting Started

1. Have an Elasticsearch instance running
2. 1. Download the latest sist2 release *
   2. (or) docker pull simon987/sist2:latest

* Windows users: sist2 runs under WSL
* Mac users: See #1

Example usage

See help page sist2 --help for more details.

Scan a directory

sist2 scan ~/Documents -o ./orig_idx/
sist2 scan --threads 4 --content-size 16384 /mnt/Pictures
sist2 scan --incremental ./orig_idx/ -o ./updated_idx/ ~/Documents

Push index to Elasticsearch or file

sist2 index --force-reset ./my_idx
sist2 index --print ./my_idx > raw_documents.ndjson

Start web interface

sist2 web --bind 0.0.0.0 --port 4321 ./my_idx1 ./my_idx2 ./my_idx3

Use sist2 with docker

scan

docker run -it \
    -v /path/to/files/:/files \
    -v $PWD/out/:/out \
    simon987/sist2 scan -t 4 /files -o /out/my_idx1

index

docker run -it --network host\
    -v $PWD/out/:/out \
    simon987/sist2 index /out/my_idx1

web

docker run --rm --network host -d --name sist2\
    -v $PWD/out/my_idx:/idx \
    -v $PWD/my/files:/files
    simon987/sist2 web --bind 0.0.0.0 /idx
docker stop sist2

Format support

File type	Library	Content	Thumbnail	Metadata
pdf,xps,cbz,fb2,epub	MuPDF	yes	yes, png	title
audio/*	ffmpeg	-	yes, jpeg	ID3 tags
video/*	ffmpeg	-	yes, jpeg	title, comment, artist
image/*	ffmpeg	-	yes, jpeg	EXIF:Artist, EXIF:ImageDescription
ttf,ttc,cff,woff,fnt,otf	Freetype2	-	yes, bmp	Name & style
text/plain	(none)	yes	no	-
tar, zip, rar, 7z, ar ...	Libarchive	yes*	-	no
docx, xlsx, pptx		yes	no	planned

* See Archive files

Archive files

sist2 will scan files stored into archive files (zip, tar, 7z...) as if they were directly in the file system. Recursive (archives inside archives) scan is also supported.

Limitations:

• Parsing media files with formats that require seek (e.g. .gif, .mp4 w/ fragmented metadata etc.) is not supported.
• Archive files are scanned sequentially, by a single thread. On systems where sist2 is not I/O bound, scans might be faster when larger archives are split into smaller parts.

To check if a media file can be parsed without seek, execute cat file.mp4 | ffprobe -

Build from source

You can compile sist2 by yourself if you don't want to use the pre-compiled binaries.

1. Install compile-time dependencies

   (Debian)

   apt install git cmake pkg-config libglib2.0-dev\
       libssl-dev uuid-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev \
       python3 libmagic-dev libfreetype6-dev libcurl-dev \
       libbz2-dev yasm libharfbuzz-dev ragel libarchive-dev
   

   (FreeBSD)

   pkg install cmake gcc yasm gmake bash ffmpeg e2fsprogs-uuid\
       autotools ragel libarchive
   

2. Build

   git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/simon987/sist2
   ./scripts/get_static_libs.sh
   cmake .
   make