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## Install

There are two ways to get `tantivy`.
If you are a rust programmer, you can run `cargo install tantivy-cli`.
Alternatively, if you are on `Linux 64bits`, you can download a
If you are a rust programmer, you probably have `cargo` installed and you can just
run `cargo install tantivy-cli`.

Alternatively, if you are on `Linux 64bits`, you can directly try and download a
static binary: [binaries/linux_x86_64/](http://fulmicoton.com/tantivy-files/binaries/linux_x86_64/tantivy)

## Creating the index

Create a directory in which your index will be stored.
## Creating the index: `new`
Let's create a directory in which your index will be stored.

```bash
# create the directory
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```


We will now initialize the index and create it's schema.
We will now initialize the index and create its schema.
The [schema](http://fulmicoton.com/tantivy/tantivy/schema/index.html) defines
the list of your fields, and for each field :
- its name
- its type, currently `u32` or `str`
- how it should be indexed.

You can find more information about the latter on
[tantivy's schema documentation page](http://fulmicoton.com/tantivy/tantivy/schema/index.html

Our documents will contain
In our case, our documents will contain
* a title
* a body
* a url

We want the title and the body to be tokenized and index. We want
to also add the term frequency and term positions to our index.
(To be honest, phrase queries are not yet implemented in tantivy,
so the positions won't be really useful in this tutorial.)

Running `tantivy new` will start a wizard that will help you go through
the definition of the schema of our new index.

Like all the other commands of `tantivy`, you will have to
pass it your index directory via the `-i` or `--index`
parameter as follows.


```bash
tantivy new -i wikipedia-index
```

When asked answer to the question as follows:


When asked answer to the question, answer as follows:

```none

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"name": "title",
"type": "text",
"options": {
"indexing": "position",
"stored": true
"indexing": "position",
"stored": true
}
},
{
"name": "body",
"type": "text",
"options": {
"indexing": "position",
"stored": true
"indexing": "position",
"stored": true
}
},
{
"name": "url",
"type": "text",
"options": {
"indexing": "unindexed",
"stored": true
"indexing": "unindexed",
"stored": true
}
}
]
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```

If you want to know more about the meaning of these options, you can check out the [schema doc page](http://fulmicoton.com/tantivy/tantivy/schema/index.html).
After the wizard has finished, a `meta.json` has been written in `wikipedia-index/meta.json`.
It is a fairly human readable JSON, so you may check its content.

It contains two sections :
- segments (currently empty, but we will change that soon)
- schema

The json displayed at the end has been written in `wikipedia-index/meta.json`.


# Get the documents to index
# Indexing the document : `index`

Tantivy's index command offers a way to index a json file.

Tantivy's `index` command offers a way to index a json file.
More accurately, the file must contain one document per line, in a json format.
The structure of this JSON object must match that of our schema definition.

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{"body": "some text", "title": "some title", "url": "http://somedomain.com"}
```

You can download a corpus of more than 5 millions articles from wikipedia
For this tutorial, you can download a corpus with the 5 millions+ English articles of wikipedia
formatted in the right format here : [wiki-articles.json (2.34 GB)](https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwnfnu441w1ec9p/wiki-articles.json.bz2?dl=0).
If you are in a rush you can [download 100 articles in the right format here](http://fulmicoton.com/tantivy-files/wiki-articles-1000.json).

Make sure to uncompress the file

```bash
bunzip2 wiki-articles.json.bz2
```
```

# Index the documents.
If you are in a rush you can [download 100 articles in the right format here](http://fulmicoton.com/tantivy-files/wiki-articles-1000.json).

The `index` command will index your document.
By default it will use as many threads as there are core on your machine.
By default it will use as many threads as there are cores on your machine.
You can change the number of threads by passing it the `-t` parameter.

On my computer (8 core Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz), it only takes 7 minutes.
On my computer (8 core Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz), it will take around 6 minutes.

```
cat /data/wiki-articles | tantivy index -i wikipedia-index
cat wiki-articles.json | tantivy index -i ./wikipedia-index
```

While it is indexing, you can peek at the index directory
to check what is happening.

```bash
ls wikipedia-index
ls ./wikipedia-index
```

If you indexed the 5 millions articles, you should see a lot of files, all with the following format
If you indexed the 5 millions articles, you should see a lot of new files, all with the following format
The main file is `meta.json`.

Our index is in fact divided in segments. Each segment acts as an individual smaller index.
It is named by a uuid.
Each different files is storing a different datastructure for the index.
Its named is simply a uuid.




# Serve the search index

Tantivy's cli also embeds a search server.
You can run it with the following command.

```
tantivy serve -i wikipedia-index
```

You can start a small server with a JSON API to search into wikipedia.
By default, the server is serving on the port `3000`.



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