great-sitemap-search

===== SIMPLESEARCH

Simplesearch provides an easy and really simple way to offer search on your website. it installs a Class that you can use to execute queries and a managment command you can use to update the indext pages based on a sitemap.xml

Quick start

1. Add "simplesearch" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::

   INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'simplesearch', )

2. edit settings.py file to include the location of the search index.

INDEX_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'index')

1. run the command ./manage.py update_search_index

2. access the search backen from your views with: from simplesearch import SimpleSiteSearcher

   searcher = SimpleSiteSearcher() results = searcher.search('a query String')

   This will return a list like this:

   [ { title:'some tiele', text:'relevant part of the searched text with on the important terms', url:'the url to the page on your site where the text was found' }, ... ] you may then use the list in your templates to display the search results.