Welcome to Django-Magellan’s documentation!

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What is Magellan?

Magellan is a 100% python search engine and spider app for django. Think of it as a mini intranet search appliance, but for the internet.

How does it work?

Magellan spiders sites that you specify in the django admin, indexing page content via Whoosh.

Features

  • Application agnostic. Magellan will spider anything you have access to.
  • Pure python. No dependencies on external services like SOLR.
  • Portable. Load Magellan into a relocatable virtualenv and use sqlite, and you can carry your search engine on a usb drive.
  • Multithreaded spidering, for speed.
  • Naive and extensible. Have a site you want to index? Write your own content extractor to scrape just the parts you care about.
  • Authenticates. Currently supports form-based authentication. Oauth and HTTP auth to follow.

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