A python library for accessing the windows search database and executing search queries. This allows a much faster file search on a windows system, than a linear search.

Just run setup.py install.

• adodbapi: use easy_install adodbapi to install
• Python 2.4 or higher
• Windows Vista or higher

Windows Search, formerly known as Windows Desktop Search (WDS) on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, is an indexed desktop search platform created by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows. Windows Search collectively refers to the indexed search on Windows Vista and later versions of Windows (also referred to as Instant Search as well as Windows Desktop Search, a standalone add-on for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 made available as freeware. All incarnations of Windows Search share a common architecture and indexing technology and use a compatible application programming interface (API). For futher information see Windows Search

import winsearch
query = winsearch.Query(select=["path"])
query.limit(5)
query.extensions("pdf", "doc", "docx", "odt")
query.sortby("date").desc()

cursor = query.execute()
print "Last five docs:"
for row in cursor:
	print "\t", row[0]

import winsearch
query = winsearch.Query(select=["size"])
query.extensions("jpg", "jpeg")

cursor = query.execute()
results = cursor.fetchall()

total_size = sum(map(lambda r: r[0], results))
print "Size of all indexed jpegs: %d MBytes" % (total_size // 0x100000)

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Copyright (c) 2013 micrkernel

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