Blazingly fast code search 🏎️

About

Sourcebot is a fast code indexing and search tool for your codebases. It is built ontop of the zoekt indexer, originally authored by Han-Wen Nienhuys and now maintained by Sourcegraph.

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Features

• 💻 One-command deployment: Get started instantly using Docker on your own machine.
• 🔍 Multi-repo search: Effortlessly index and search through multiple public and private repositories in GitHub, GitLab, or Gitea.
• ⚡Lightning fast performance: Built on top of the powerful Zoekt search engine.
• 📂 Full file visualization: Instantly view the entire file when selecting any search result.
• 🎨 Modern web app: Enjoy a sleek interface with features like syntax highlighting, light/dark mode, and vim-style navigation

You can try out our public hosted demo here!

Getting Started

Get started with a single docker command:

docker run -p 3000:3000 --rm --name sourcebot ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest

Navigate to localhost:3000 to start searching the Sourcebot repo. Want to search your own repos? Checkout how to configure Sourcebot.

What does this command do?

• Pull and run the Sourcebot docker image from ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest. Make sure you have docker installed.
• Read the repos listed in default config and start indexing them.
• Map port 3000 between your machine and the docker image.
• Starts the web server on port 3000.

Configuring Sourcebot

Sourcebot supports indexing and searching through public and private repositories hosted on GitHub, GitLab and Gitea. This section will guide you through configuring the repositories that Sourcebot indexes.

1. Create a new folder on your machine that stores your configs and .sourcebot cache, and navigate into it:

   mkdir sourcebot_workspace
   cd sourcebot_workspace

2. Create a new config following the configuration schema to specify which repositories Sourcebot should index. For example, let's index llama.cpp:

   touch my_config.json
   echo '{
       "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
       "repos": [
           {
               "type": "github",
               "repos": [
                   "ggerganov/llama.cpp"
               ]
           }
       ]
   }' > my_config.json

Note

Sourcebot can also index all repos owned by a organization, user, group, etc., instead of listing them individually. For examples, see the configs directory. For additional usage information, see the configuration schema.

3. Run Sourcebot and point it to the new config you created with the -e CONFIG_PATH flag:

   docker run -p 3000:3000 --rm --name sourcebot -v $(pwd):/data -e CONFIG_PATH=/data/my_config.json ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest

   What does this command do?

   • Pull and run the Sourcebot docker image from ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest.
   • Mount the current directory (-v $(pwd):/data) to allow Sourcebot to persist the .sourcebot cache.
   • Mirrors (clones) llama.cpp at HEAD into .sourcebot/github/ggerganov/llama.cpp.
   • Indexes llama.cpp into a .zoekt index file in .sourcebot/index/.
   • Map port 3000 between your machine and the docker image.
   • Starts the web server on port 3000.
   
   

   You should see a .sourcebot folder in your current directory. This folder stores a cache of the repositories zoekt has indexed. The HEAD commit of a repository is re-indexed every hour. Indexing private repos? See Providing an access token.

   
   

Providing an access token

This will depend on the code hosting platform you're using:

GitHub

In order to index private repositories, you'll need to generate a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT). Create a new PAT here and make sure you select the repo scope:

Next, update your configuration with the token field:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
    "repos": [
        {
            "type": "github",
            "token": "ghp_mytoken",
            ...
        }
    ]
}

You can also pass tokens as environment variables:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
    "repos": [
        {
            "type": "github",
            "token": {
                // note: this env var can be named anything. It
                // doesn't need to be `GITHUB_TOKEN`.
                "env": "GITHUB_TOKEN"
            },
            ...
        }
    ]
}

You'll need to pass this environment variable each time you run Sourcebot:

docker run -e GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_mytoken /* additional args */ ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest

GitLab

Generate a GitLab Personal Access Token (PAT) here and make sure you select the read_api scope:

Next, update your configuration with the token field:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
    "repos": [
        {
            "type": "gitlab",
            "token": "glpat-mytoken",
            ...
        }
    ]
}

You can also pass tokens as environment variables:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
    "repos": [
        {
            "type": "gitlab",
            "token": {
                // note: this env var can be named anything. It
                // doesn't need to be `GITLAB_TOKEN`.
                "env": "GITLAB_TOKEN"
            },
            ...
        }
    ]
}

You'll need to pass this environment variable each time you run Sourcebot:

docker run -e GITLAB_TOKEN=glpat-mytoken /* additional args */ ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest

Gitea

Generate a Gitea access token here. At minimum, you'll need to select the read:repository scope, but read:user and read:organization are required for the user and org fields of your config file:

Next, update your configuration with the token field:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
    "repos": [
        {
            "type": "gitea",
            "token": "my-secret-token",
            ...
        }
    ]
}

You can also pass tokens as environment variables:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
    "repos": [
        {
            "type": "gitea",
            "token": {
                // note: this env var can be named anything. It
                // doesn't need to be `GITEA_TOKEN`.
                "env": "GITEA_TOKEN"
            },
            ...
        }
    ]
}

You'll need to pass this environment variable each time you run Sourcebot:

docker run -e GITEA_TOKEN=my-secret-token /* additional args */ ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest

Using a self-hosted GitLab / GitHub instance

If you're using a self-hosted GitLab or GitHub instance with a custom domain, you can specify the domain in your config file. See configs/self-hosted.json for examples.

Searching multiple branches

By default, Sourcebot will index the default branch. To configure Sourcebot to index multiple branches (or tags), the revisions field can be used:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
    "repos": [
        {
            "type": "github",
            "revisions": {
                // Index the `main` branch and any branches matching the `releases/*` glob pattern.
                "branches": [
                    "main",
                    "releases/*"
                ],
                // Index the `latest` tag and any tags matching the `v*.*.*` glob pattern.
                "tags": [
                    "latest",
                    "v*.*.*"
                ]
            },
            "repos": [
                "my_org/repo_a",
                "my_org/repo_b"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

For each repository (in this case, repo_a and repo_b), Sourcebot will index all branches and tags matching the branches and tags patterns provided. Any branches or tags that don't match the patterns will be ignored and not indexed.

To search on a specific revision, use the revision filter in the search bar:

Searching a local directory

Local directories can be searched by using the local type in your config file:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/main/schemas/v2/index.json",
    "repos": [
        {
            "type": "local",
            "path": "/repos/my-repo",
            // re-index files when a change is detected
            "watch": true,
            "exclude": {
                // exclude paths from being indexed
                "paths": [
                    "node_modules",
                    "build"
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

You'll need to mount the directory as a volume when running Sourcebot:

docker run -v /path/to/my-repo:/repos/my-repo /* additional args */ ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest

Build from source

Note

Building from source is only required if you'd like to contribute. The recommended way to use Sourcebot is to use the pre-built docker image.

1. Install go and NodeJS. Note that a NodeJS version of at least 21.1.0 is required.

2. Install ctags (required by zoekt)

   // macOS:
   brew install universal-ctags
   
   // Linux:
   snap install universal-ctags

3. Clone the repository with submodules:

   git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot.git

4. Run make to build zoekt and install dependencies:

   cd sourcebot
   make

   The zoekt binaries and web dependencies are placed into bin and node_modules respectively.

5. Create a config.json file at the repository root. See Configuring Sourcebot for more information.

6. Start Sourcebot with the command:

   yarn dev

   A .sourcebot directory will be created and zoekt will begin to index the repositories found given config.json.

7. Start searching at http://localhost:3000.

Telemetry

By default, Sourcebot collects anonymized usage data through PostHog to help us improve the performance and reliability of our tool. We do not collect or transmit any information related to your codebase. In addition, all events are sanitized to ensure that no sensitive or identifying details leave your machine. The data we collect includes general usage statistics and metadata such as query performance (e.g., search duration, error rates) to monitor the application's health and functionality. This information helps us better understand how Sourcebot is used and where improvements can be made :)

If you'd like to disable all telemetry, you can do so by setting the environment variable SOURCEBOT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED to 1 in the docker run command:

docker run -e SOURCEBOT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 /* additional args */ ghcr.io/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot:latest

Or if you are building locally, create a .env.local file at the repository root with the following contents:

SOURCEBOT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
NEXT_PUBLIC_SOURCEBOT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1