Ooh, that's neat... but doesn't give a search engine like output? What I 
really need is a results listing that shows some context for the search 
hit; I struck on the cell as a convenient proxy for that.

--tony

On Friday, 11 May 2018 16:04:01 UTC+1, Grant Nestor wrote:
>
> You can also create a notebook to do this! 
>
> ```py
> import glob
>
> pattern = './**/*.ipynb'
> query = 'vdom'
>
> for filepath in glob.iglob(pattern, recursive=True):
>     with open(filepath) as file:
>         s = file.read()
>         if (s.find(query) > -1):
>             print(filepath)
> ```
>
> It gets the job done and it's flexible and you're already using it!
>
> On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 10:40:46 AM UTC-7, Tony Hirst wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for that. I also started dabbling with a simple lunr.js solution - 
>> initial notes here: 
>> https://blog.ouseful.info/2018/05/10/initial-sketch-searching-jupyter-notebooks-using-lunr/
>>
>> Comments welcome... I need to walk the dog and ponder the actual 
>> usefulness - or otherwise - of this now. Minimal working demo throws up all 
>> sorts of issues. COunterpoint of the grep solution is also really useful. A 
>> third point of comparison would be a sqlite/datasette or 
>> sqlite/scriptedForm search tool.
>>
>> --tony
>>
>> On Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:42:32 UTC+1, Grant Nestor wrote:
>>>
>>> A simple solution is to open a terminal in JupyterLab/Jupyter Notebook 
>>> and run the following:
>>>
>>> grep --include='*.ipynb' --exclude-dir='.ipynb_checkpoints' -rliw . -e 
>>> 'search 
>>> query'
>>>
>>> This will search your Jupyter server root recursively for files that 
>>> contain the whole word (case-insensitive) "search query" and only return 
>>> the file names of matches.
>>>
>>> More info: 
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16956810/how-do-i-find-all-files-containing-specific-text-on-linux
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 6:07:02 AM UTC-7, Tony Hirst wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm working in an edu context, with notebooks being used to deliver 
>>>> interactive teaching materials, and one of the things we know students 
>>>> do is search over reference/resource materials.
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if anyone has looked at simple search solutions for 
>>>> searching 
>>>> over jupyter notebooks, eg by dropping them into a lunr.js index using 
>>>> lunr.py, or adding them to sqlite (in which case, what sort of schema 
>>>> did you use?).
>>>>
>>>> In first instance, I was thinking of just indexing the markdown cells 
>>>> in each notebook, with a reference back to the original filepath. (I 
>>>> think effective code search may be a whole other issue.) There are 
>>>> also issues around whether to have views back into a complete 
>>>> notebook, or link to nbconverted html notebooks vs live running 
>>>> notebooks.
>>>>
>>>> V first steps in my thinking, just wondered if it's already work in p
>>>> rogress somewhere?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --tony
>>>>
>>>

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