PkgSearch is a small REPL tool that helps Julia developers find and install packages. It knows about both the official and the unofficial packages available on GitHub. It searches for your keywords within both the package name and, most importantly, within the package's README file.
The search results are provided by a RESTful API so the search will be fast and no data will be stored locally. The APIs data is refreshed daily.
PkgSearch is not yet an official package, so install using:
Pkg.clone("https://github.com/essenciary/PkgSearch")It uses a few more packages, so you might need to install these too, first:
Requests
Sparklines
MetadataTools
Memoize
In order to search for packages, the lookup(keyword1::AbstractString, keyword2::AbstractString, ...) function is available. As this is designed as a REPL tool, the search results will be displayed in a human readable format. However, the function will return an array of results, that can be used programatically.
using PkgSearch
julia> PkgSearch.lookup("web")
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Escher.jl
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Unofficial package
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git://github.com/shashi/Escher.jl.git
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web server for 2016.** Escher's built-in web server allows you to create interactive
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docker-scrapy-crawler
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Unofficial package
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git://github.com/iammai/docker-scrapy-crawler.git
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web browser for the web ui for monitoring * Go to http://192.168.59.103:6800/ * Go to http://192.168.59.103:6800/jobs
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GoogleCharts
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Official package
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git://github.com/jverzani/GoogleCharts.jl.git
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web page describes this. We don't have a mechanism in place supporting Google's "Column
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10-element Array{Any,1}:
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0951392,"headline"=>"**web** server for 2016.** Escher's built-in **web** server allows you to create interactive"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/466"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"Escher.jl","url"=>"git://github.com/shashi/Escher.jl.git"),"id"=>466,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.094717,"headline"=>"**web** browser for the **web** ui for monitoring\n * Go to http://192.168.59.103:6800/\n * Go to http://192.168.59.103:6800/jobs"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/1317"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"docker-scrapy-crawler","url"=>"git://github.com/iammai/docker-scrapy-crawler.git"),"id"=>1317,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0889769,"headline"=>"**web** page describes this. We don't have a mechanism in\nplace supporting Google's \"Column"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/289"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"GoogleCharts","url"=>"git://github.com/jverzani/GoogleCharts.jl.git"),"id"=>289,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0827456,"headline"=>"**web** pages from Julia. Pages may be served over the internet and controlled from the browser"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/240"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"Blink.jl","url"=>"git://github.com/JunoLab/Blink.jl.git"),"id"=>240,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0827456,"headline"=>"**web** browser. Click\non the *New* button and choose the *Julia* option to start a new\n\"notebook"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/288"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"IJulia.jl","url"=>"git://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl.git"),"id"=>288,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0827456,"headline"=>"**web** content, GTK+ 3 Port\n11. libwebkitgtk3-devel (mingw32) - Library for rendering **web** content, GTK+ 3 Port"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/939"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"WinRPM.jl","url"=>"git://github.com/JuliaLang/WinRPM.jl.git"),"id"=>939,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0827456,"headline"=>"**Web**)\"\n\t \"Idrisi\" => \"Idrisi Vector (.vct)\"\n\t \"WFS\" => \"OGC WFS (**Web** Feature Service)\"\n\t \"WMS\" => \"OGC **Web** Map Service"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/1058"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"RasterIO.jl","url"=>"git://github.com/wkearn/RasterIO.jl.git"),"id"=>1058,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0759909,"headline"=>"**web** applications in Julia as easy as possible.\n\nIf you have looked at the examples"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/492"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"Pages","url"=>"git://github.com/EricForgy/Pages.jl.git"),"id"=>492,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0759909,"headline"=>"**web** services some closure. Mux allows you to\ndefine servers in terms of highly modular"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/588"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"Mux.jl","url"=>"git://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl.git"),"id"=>588,"type"=>"packages")
Dict{AbstractString,Any}("search"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("rank"=>0.0759909,"headline"=>"**Web** Services\n\nThis package provides a native Julia interface to the Amazon **Web** Services API\n\nThe following"),"links"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("self"=>"/api/v1/packages/644"),"attributes"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("name"=>"AWS","url"=>"git://github.com/JuliaParallel/AWS.jl.git"),"id"=>644,"type"=>"packages")
The results are paginated, with 10 packages per page. To navigate between the results, use the next() and prev() functions. They both take an optional ::Int argument indicating how many pages to jump (the default is 1).
julia> PkgSearch.next()
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TextMining.jl
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Unofficial package
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git://github.com/SLU-TMI/TextMining.jl.git
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Julia**** with the goal of making them fast, generic, and easily usable in **Julia's REPL
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Once you found a package that looks interesting, you can find out more about it using details(package_name::AbstractString). Similar to lookup(), the results are displayed in human readable format and a Dict is returned for using in scripts.
julia> PkgSearch.details("Mocking")
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Mocking
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git://github.com/invenia/Mocking.jl.git
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Official package
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Mocking
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Allows Julia functions to be temporarily modified for testing purposes.
Usage
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Using the mend function provides a way to temporarily overwrite a specific method.
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Dict{AbstractString,Any} with 4 entries:
"name" => "Mocking"
"participation" => Any[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 … 0,0,0,2,3,0,0,0,0,0]
"readme" => "# Mocking\n\n[](https://travis-ci.org/invenia/Mocking.jl)\n[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/omus/mocking-jl)\n[![codecov.io](http://…
"url" => "git://github.com/invenia/Mocking.jl.git"PkgSearch informs you whether or not a package is official. Using this info you can either Pkg.add() or Pkg.clone(). Or you can just run PkgSearch.install(package_name::AbstractString) and PkgSearch will do it for you.