https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish

🪼 a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.
https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish

fuzzy-search hacktoberfest hamming jaro-winkler levenshtein metaphone python soundex

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🪼 a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish
• Owner: jamesturk
• License: mit
• Created: 2010-07-09T20:41:11.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-07T04:20:42.000Z (17 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-13T11:39:13.597Z (10 days ago)
• Topics: fuzzy-search, hacktoberfest, hamming, jaro-winkler, levenshtein, metaphone, python, soundex
• Language: Jupyter Notebook
• Homepage: https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/
• Size: 3.5 MB
• Stars: 2,119
• Watchers: 41
• Forks: 160
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE
  • Citation: CITATION.cff

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README

        
# Overview

**jellyfish** is a library for approximate & phonetic matching of strings.

Source: [https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish](https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish)

Documentation: [https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/](https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/)

Issues: [https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues](https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues)

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## Included Algorithms

String comparison:

* Levenshtein Distance

* Damerau-Levenshtein Distance

* Jaccard Index

* Jaro Distance

* Jaro-Winkler Distance

* Match Rating Approach Comparison

* Hamming Distance

Phonetic encoding:

* American Soundex

* Metaphone

* NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)

* Match Rating Codex

## Example Usage

``` python

>>> import jellyfish

>>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')

2

>>> jellyfish.jaro_similarity('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')

0.89629629629629637

>>> jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'jellyfihs')

1

>>> jellyfish.metaphone('Jellyfish')

'JLFX'

>>> jellyfish.soundex('Jellyfish')

'J412'

>>> jellyfish.nysiis('Jellyfish')

'JALYF'

>>> jellyfish.match_rating_codex('Jellyfish')

'JLLFSH'

```