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tinysearch

Tiny WebAssembly-powered static site search

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tinysearch is a lightweight full-text search engine that compiles a static site's content into a small WebAssembly module for client-side search. It is designed for blogs and documentation where a search server would be overkill.

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Key features

  • WebAssembly search module
  • No backend required
  • Tiny index size
  • Client-side full-text search

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Active community (3k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Rust
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

Is tinysearch secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for tinysearch's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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