myoddweb.desktopsearch, (MDS), is a powerful indexer files indexer. It makes is fast and easy to find indexed files on your desktop.

Because it is much faster than the default windows search feature and it is more customisable as well.

The components are the various 'parsers' that indexes your own folders, you can create your own components to fit your own needs.

• C++, (.cpp, .c, .cc, .c++, .cxx, .h, .hh, .hpp, .hxx, .h++)
• C#, (.cs)
• Python (.py)
• Text files, (.txt)
• SQL, (.sql)

Simply create your own component with one or more IFileParser class, when a file is indexed, your components will return a list of words to add to the database. And that's all really, you can add a list of supported extensions, (but you could still return false when calling Supported( ... ) if you feel that it is not a file you support).

public interface IFileParser
{
  /// <summary>
  /// The name of the parser.
  /// </summary>
  string Name { get; }
  
  /// <summary>
  /// The list of extensions we aim to support
  /// </summary>
  string[] Extenstions { get; }
  
  /// <summary>
  /// Check if the given file is supported.
  /// Return true if we will parse it or not.
  /// </summary>
  bool Supported(FileInfo file);
  
  /// <summary>
  /// Parse a single file and return a list of words.
  /// Return null if the file is not supported.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="file"></param>
  /// <param name="logger"></param>
  /// <param name="token"></param>
  /// <returns></returns>
  Task<Words> ParseAsync(FileInfo file, ILogger logger, CancellationToken token);
}

With Piger you can launch the desktop seach app and automagically search for a word

• Install the servcice
• Make sure it is all up and running.
• Go to your piger root commands (normally %appdata%\myoddweb\ActionMonitor\RootCommands)
• Create a new lua file and call it something like DesktopSearch
• Add the code below
• Reload piger, (Caps Lock + this.reload)

--
-- Open Desktop search with selected words.
--

-- the number of words passed
local sizeOf = am_getCommandCount();

-- the query we (might) use.
local query = "";
if sizeOf == 0  then
    -- no words given ... try use the hilighted ones.
    query = am_getstring();
    if false == query then
      am_say( "Starting Desktop Search.", 400, 10 );
      query = "";
    else
      am_say( "Starting Desktop Search: <b><i>" .. query .. "</i></b>", 400, 10 );
    end
else
  local prettyQuery = "";
  for count = 1, sizeOf, 1  do
    -- the numbers are 0 based.
    -- and we ignore the first one as it is the command itself
    local word = am_getCommand( count );
    query = query .. word;
    prettyQuery = prettyQuery .. "<b><i>" .. word .. "</i></b>";
    if count < sizeOf then
      query = query .. " "
      prettyQuery = prettyQuery .. " and ";
    end
  end  
  am_say( "Starting Desktop Search: " .. prettyQuery, 400, 10 );
end

-- we can launch the desktop search.
am_execute( [[%ProgramFiles%\myoddweb\desktopsearch\myoddweb.desktopsearch.exe]], [[--query "]]..query..[[" --config "%appdata%\myoddweb\desktopsearch\desktop.json"]], false);

• Of course if you have a different config/locations then you can edit those.