What is solrpy?

solrpy is a python client for solr, an enterprise search server built on top of lucene. solrpy allows you to add documents to a solr instance, and then to perform queries and gather search results from solr using your favorite programming language--python.

Overview

Here's the basic gist:

``` import solr

create a connection to a solr server

s = solr.SolrConnection('http://example.org:8083/solr')

add a document to the index

s.add(id=1, title='Lucene in Action', author=['Erik Hatcher', 'Otis Gospodnetić']) s.commit()

do a search

response = s.query('title:lucene') for hit in response.results: print hit['title']

```

Slightly More Details

Optional parameters for query, faceting, highlighting and more like this can be passed in as Python parameters to the query method. You just need to convert the dot notation (e.g. facet.field) to underscore notation (e.g. facet_field) so that they can be used as a parameter name.

For example, lets say you wanted to get faceting information in your search result:

response = s.query('title:lucene', facet='true', facet_field='subject')

and if the parameter takes multiple values you just pass them in as a list:

response = s.query('title:lucene', facet='true', facet_field=['subject', 'publisher'])

For the full details see the Sphinx Documentation on PyPI

Install

solrpy is available at the pypi so you should be able to:solrpy@googlecode.com

easy_install solrpy

Or you can check out the source code and:

python setup.py install

Discuss

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