Ferret

Ferret is a search engine that unifies search results from different resources such as Github, Slack, Trello, AnswerHub and more. It can be used via CLI, UI or REST API

Distributed knowledge and avoiding context switching are very important for efficiency. Ferret provides a unified search interface for retrieving and accessing to information with minimal effort.

Installation

Mac	Linux	Win
64bit	64bit	64bit

See for building from source.

Usage

Make sure Ferret is configured properly before use it.

Help

ferret -h

CLI

# Search Github
# For more Github search syntax see https://developer.github.com/v3/search/
ferret search github intent
ferret search github intent+extension:md

# Search Slack
ferret search slack "meeting minutes"

# Search Trello
ferret search trello milestone

# Search AnswerHub
ferret search answerhub vpn

# Search Consul
ferret search consul influxdb

# Pagination
# Number of search result for per page is 10
ferret search trello milestone --page 2

# Timeout
ferret search trello milestone --timeout 5000ms

# Limit
ferret search trello epics --limit 100

# Opening search results
# Search for 'milestone' keyword on Trello and go to the second search result
ferret search trello milestone
ferret search trello milestone --goto 2

UI

ferret listen

# open http://localhost:3030/

REST API

# Listen for HTTP requests
ferret listen

# Search by REST API
curl 'http://localhost:3030/search?provider=answerhub&keyword=intent&page=1&timeout=5000ms'

Configuration

Credentials;

• Github token
• Slack token
• Trello key
  • For Trello token visit https://trello.com/1/authorize?key=REPLACEWITHYOURKEY&expiration=never&name=SinglePurposeToken&response_type=token&scope=read
• AnswerHub
  • For username and password visit 'My Preferences->Authentication Modes' in your AnswerHub site

ferret.yml

Set FERRET_CONFIG environment variable;

# macOS, linux
export FERRET_CONFIG=~/ferret.yml

# win
set FERRET_CONFIG=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%/ferret.yml

Save the following configuration into ferret.yml file in your home folder.

search:
  timeout: 5000ms # timeout for search command. Default is `5000ms`
  gotoCmd: open   # used by `--goto` argument for opening links. Default is `open`
listen:
  address: :3030  # HTTP address for the UI and the REST API. Default is :3030
  pathPrefix:     # a URL path prefix for the UI (i.e. /ferret/)
  providers:      # a comma separated list of providers. Default is base on config.yml
providers:
  - provider: answerhub
    url:      {{env "FERRET_ANSWERHUB_URL"}}
    username: {{env "FERRET_ANSWERHUB_USERNAME"}}
    password: {{env "FERRET_ANSWERHUB_PASSWORD"}}
  - provider: consul
    url: {{env "FERRET_CONSUL_URL"}}
  - provider: github
    url:      {{env "FERRET_GITHUB_URL"}}
    username: {{env "FERRET_GITHUB_SEARCH_USER"}}
    token:    {{env "FERRET_GITHUB_TOKEN"}}
  - provider: slack
    token: {{env "FERRET_SLACK_TOKEN"}}

Set the environment variables base on ferret.yml and credentials.

Note: Environment directives ({{env ...}}) can be replaced with credentials. But it's not recommended for production usage.

Build

Note that this builds a ferret executable in the local directory, but build products are in $GO_PATH.

go get github.com/rakyll/statik
go get -u -v github.com/yieldbot/ferret
go generate github.com/yieldbot/ferret/assets
go build github.com/yieldbot/ferret

Test

This is broken at the moment.

./test.sh

Release

Releases are handled by the apps build pipeline

# Update CHANGELOG.md and README.md and APP_VERSION
git add CHANGELOG.md README.md APP_VERSION

git commit -m "v1.0.0"         # replace v1.0.0 with new version
git push origin master

Contributing

All contributions are welcome. However there are rules and guidelines;

• Code contributions must be through pull requests
• Run tests, linting and formatting before a pull request (test.sh)
• Pull requests can not be merged without being reviewed
• Use "Issues" for bug reports, feature requests and discussions
• Do not refactor existing code without a discussion
• Do not add a new third party dependency without a discussion
• Use semantic versioning and git tags for versioning

License

Licensed under The MIT License (MIT) For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE.txt file.