About Beagle
Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking for.
More technically, Beagle is a Linux desktop-independent service which transparently and unobtrusively indexes your data in real-time. For example:
- Files are immediately indexed when they are created, are re-indexed when they are modified, and are dropped from the index upon deletion.
- E-mails are indexed upon arrival.
- IM conversations are indexed as you chat, a line at a time.
- Web pages are indexed as you view them (with a browser extension).
Beagle supports many different data sources and file formats. A complete list can be found on the Supported Filetypes page.
Beagle includes a GNOME-based graphical tool and a web based interface for searching its indexes. It also provides programming interfaces (in C#, C, and Python) so that any application can plug into Beagle's searching and indexing power.
Today Beagle is gaining momentum in Linux desktop applications, ranging from KDE's Kerry Beagle search tool, to GNOME's Nautilus file manager and Yelp help browser, to the Deskbar quick search interface, to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop main menu. See the full list of apps using Beagle.
When you search using Beagle, you search all of the text and metadata contained inside your documents. Any information that can be extracted from your data is available to you. You can search for your MP3 files by artist, your emails by person, and all your documents by keyword.
Beagle uses the Lucene indexing system from the Apache project and the prodigious Doug Cutting, ported to .NET by George Aroush.
To start using Beagle, visit our Getting Started page.
Release notes
Here are the past release notes:
| * 0.0.0 | * 0.0.1 | * 0.0.2 | * 0.0.3 | * 0.0.4 | * 0.0.5 | * 0.0.6 | * 0.0.7 |
| * 0.0.8 | * 0.0.9 | * 0.0.10 | * 0.0.11 | * 0.0.12 | |||
| * 0.1.0 | * 0.1.1 | * 0.1.2 | * 0.1.3 | * 0.1.4 | |||
| * 0.2.0 | * 0.2.1 | * 0.2.2 | * 0.2.3 | * 0.2.4 | * 0.2.5 | * 0.2.6 | * 0.2.7 |
| * 0.2.8 | * 0.2.9 | * 0.2.10 | * 0.2.11 | * 0.2.12 | * 0.2.13 | * 0.2.14 | * 0.2.15 |
| * 0.2.16 | * 0.2.17 | * 0.2.18 | |||||
| * 0.3.0 | * 0.3.1 | * 0.3.2 | * 0.3.3 | * 0.3.4 | * 0.3.5 | * 0.3.6 | * 0.3.7 |
