https://github.com/mikegoatly/lifti

A lightweight full text indexer for .NET
https://github.com/mikegoatly/lifti

dotnet-standard full-text-search object-indexing text-indexing text-search trie trie-tree

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A lightweight full text indexer for .NET

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mikegoatly/lifti
• Owner: mikegoatly
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-07-29T22:00:05.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-08T12:32:36.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-09T21:49:53.584Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: dotnet-standard, full-text-search, object-indexing, text-indexing, text-search, trie, trie-tree
• Language: C#
• Homepage:
• Size: 74.5 MB
• Stars: 189
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 13
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# LIFTI

A lightweight full text indexer for .NET

Key features:

* [📃 Indexing loose text](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/docs/getting-started/)

* [💼 Indexing object properties](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/docs/getting-started/indexing-objects/)

* [🔎 Powerful query language](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/docs/searching/lifti-query-syntax/)

* [📚 Thesaurus](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/docs/index-construction/withdefaultthesaurus/)

* [🗄️ Compact binary serialized format](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/docs/serialization/)

## Getting started

[📖 Read the documentation](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/docs) - there's lots of useful information and examples there, along 

with some [getting started guides](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/docs/getting-started/) and [recipes](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/docs/recipes/).

[🧑‍💻 Check out some sample code](https://github.com/mikegoatly/lifti/tree/master/samples/TestConsole) - the repo contains examples that can be run as a console application.

[🤹‍♀️ Use LIFTI in a Blazor app](https://mikegoatly.github.io/lifti/blazor-sample) - try out various queries against Wikipedia content

## Support

If you find LIFTI useful, why not buy me a coffee to power the development work?

[![buymeacoffee](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4577868/176899270-00846262-8323-4f13-9c6a-d655a30cbca3.png)](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mikegoatly)

## Contribute

It would be great to have more people contributing to LIFTI - how can you help?

* Create issues for bugs you find - **level 1**

* Create feature suggestions - **level 2**

* Create pull requests for documentation changes - **level 3**

* Create pull requests for bug fixes or features - **boss level**

### Documentation contributions

1. Install [hugo-extended](https://gohugo.io/installation/), e.g. by using `winget install Hugo.Hugo.Extended` on Windows.

1. Fork the LIFTI repo and clone your fork locally

1. Initialize the docsy theme git submodule using `git submodule update --recursive --init`

1. Edit the documentation

1. Test the site locally by running `hugo server` from the `docs` folder

1. Create a pull request for your changes