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Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
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- API
- The webserver can expose a JSON search API and a gRPC API for structured queries and streaming search results.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Code host setup
- The README documents indexing a GitHub organization and periodically fetching and indexing its repositories.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Container
- The project publishes a container image at ghcr.io/sourcegraph/zoekt containing Zoekt binaries, git, and universal-ctags.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Index size limit
- The design document says shard offsets use uint32 and caps content size per shard at 1G.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The project says its trigram indexing and syntactic parsing work well for a variety of programming languages.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository lists the Apache-2.0 license.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Zoekt is a text search engine intended for source code.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Ranking
- Search results are ranked using code-related signals, including whether a match is on a symbol.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Repositories
- It can search an individual repository or search across many repositories in a large codebase.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Search
- It supports fast substring and regular expression matching, with Boolean query operators.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- The design document describes a public-facing deployment using HTTPS without authentication and identifies repository credentials, TLS certificates, and query logs as sensitive data.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Security mitigation
- The design document says seccomp-based sandboxing mitigates the risk from ctags processing indexed code.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Ways to use it
- Zoekt can be used through command-line tools or through indexserver and webserver services that sync repositories from a code host and search them through a web UI or API.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
