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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>The Xapian Project</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css"> <link rel="icon" href="/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png" sizes="180x180"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> <!-- @import "layout2.css"; //--> </style> <link rel="canonical" href="https://xapian.org/"> </head> <body> <div id="Content"> <img src="xapian-logo.png" alt="The Xapian Project"> <p>Welcome to the Xapian project website.</p> <p>Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html">GPL v2+</a>. It's written in <a href="/docs/apidoc/html/annotated.html">C++</a>, with <a href="/docs/bindings/">bindings</a> to allow use from <a href="/docs/bindings/perl/">Perl</a> <a href="/docs/bindings/python/">Python 2</a>, <a href="/docs/bindings/python3/">Python 3</a>, <a href="/docs/bindings/php/">PHP</a>, <a href="/docs/bindings/java/">Java</a>, <a href="/docs/bindings/tcl8/">Tcl</a>, <a href="/docs/bindings/csharp/">C#</a>, <a href="/docs/bindings/ruby/">Ruby</a>, <a href="/docs/bindings/lua/">Lua</a>, <a href="https://github.com/arcusfelis/xapian-erlang-bindings#readme">Erlang</a>, <a href="https://github.com/mtibeica/node-xapian#readme">Node.js</a> and <a href="https://github.com/amandaJayanetti/RXapian#readme">R</a> (so far!)</p> <p>Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It has built-in support for several families of weighting models and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.</p> <p>If you're after a packaged search engine for your website, you should take a look at <a href="/docs/omega/overview.html">Omega</a>: an application we supply built upon Xapian. Unlike most other website search solutions, Xapian's versatility allows you to extend Omega to meet your needs as they grow.</p> <p>The <a href="https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2024-July/010052.html">latest stable version is 1.4.26</a>, released on 2024-07-18.</p> <p>The <a href="https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2017-September/009553.html">latest old stable version is 1.2.25</a>, released on 2017-09-26.</p> </div> <div id="Menu"> <span id="current">home</span><br> <a href="features">features</a><br> <a href="history">history</a><br> <a href="lists">mailing lists</a><br> <a href="docs/">docs</a><br> <a href="users">current users</a><br> <a href="sponsors">sponsors</a><br> <a href="support">commercial support</a><br> <a href="download">download</a><br> <a href="bleeding">bleeding edge</a><br> <a href="bugs">bugs</a><br> <a href="contact">contact us</a><br> <a href="search">search this website</a><br> <form method="GET" action="search"><div><input type="search" name="P" size="14"></div></form> </div> </body> </html>