Fimfarchive search tools

This repository contains tools for searching fanfics from fimfiction.net

Preparing data

1. Build search tools. git submodule update --init && make should be enough.
2. Download latest fimfarchive.
3. Build metadata database from index.json of that archive. unzip -p $ARCHIVE_PATH index.json | ./fimfar build

Old search

Old search system is combination of various tools from ./fimfar such as:

name, merge, select, search, multisearch.

They don't need much additional space on disk or in RAM, but every full-text search with multisearch and especially search requires long time to complete.

New search

New search uses power of existing search engine Xapian wrapped in Recoll.

Using new search requires more additional steps and preparatory time, but results faster full-text search.

1. Install recoll of at least version 1.40.2 or latest git if it hasn't been released yet
2. Compile rclfimf in recoll/ by executing gcc -lminizip -O2 -o rclfimf rclfimf.c -I ../src/ rclcommon.c ../src/utils.c
3. Use example configs in recoll/config to configure your recoll, move fimfarchive to empty directory
4. Copy db/extra.bin into that directory as archive and name it same, but with .zip replaced to .bin
5. Do step 4 for db/alttag.bin and extension .tag
6. Index with recollindex