LAN Search

Index and search files shared in the Local Area Network

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Features

1. Keyword searching
2. Wildcard matching
3. Regular Expressions!
4. Easy copy and paste

Deployment

Get the Repository

Download and install git. Open git bash and execute the following command to get the repository.

git clone https://github.com/yadongwen/lansearch.git

ElasticSearch

Download ElasticSearch and start an instance. To start an instance, decompress the file and execute bin/elasticsearch.bat

Python Environment

Download and install python2.7, pip and virtualenv.

In git bash go to the repository folder and create a Python virtual environment with virtualenv venv, then activate it with . venv/source/activate.

In venv execute pip install -r requirements.txt to download and install the dependencies.

pywin32 is also required to run this app which cannot be installed automatically with pip. Please manually download and install it.

Crawl Data

lansearch.py provides a few commands for data crawling. Please refer to the command reference below.

$ python lansearch.py
usage: lansearch.py [-?]

                    {create_index,shell,drop_index,retrieve_shared_folder_list,
                    retrieve_machine_list,runserver,filter_shared_folders,test,
                    filter_machines,recreate_tables,crawl}
                    ...

positional arguments:
  {create_index,shell,drop_index,retrieve_shared_folder_list,
  retrieve_machine_list,runserver,filter_shared_folders,test,
  filter_machines,recreate_tables,crawl}
    create_index        create file index
    shell               Runs a Python shell inside Flask application context.
    drop_index          drop file index
    retrieve_shared_folder_list
                        retrieve list of shared folders and save to DB.
    retrieve_machine_list
                        retrieve machine list in the current domain. result
                        will be saved to machines table in data/machines.db
    runserver           Runs the Flask development server i.e. app.run()
    filter_shared_folders
    test                Run unit tests
    filter_machines
    recreate_tables     dangerous
    crawl               crawl list of shared files and push to ES.

optional arguments:
  -?, --help            show this help message and exit

Start App

Finally you may start LAN Search with python lansearch.py runserver -h 0.0.0.0.

Enjoy!