Scoop Super Search, instantaneous results, UTF-8 and regex compatible. The fastest search engine for Scoop.

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Scoop Super Search is capable of searching in more than 800 buckets and 52,000 app manifests in internet. It uses the lightning fast ScoopMaster database to provide intantaneous results in less than 500 ms.

Scoop Super Search uses the ScoopMaster database, ensuring the latest results and highest versions for every app in Scoop. The database is updated every 30 minutes, ensuring fresh results, newer than even the official scoop app database.

Most Scoop search tools provide results only referred to the app name. SS can search also in the app descriptions.

Most Scoop search systems provide results for a single keyword. SS can search combinations of OR and AND.

SS also supports extended REGEX pattern seaches, accepting even multiple regex patterns.

SS accepts searches in UTF-8 encoding, supporting searches in descriptions when the language uses suplemental Unicode pages. Please note that this feature requires a UTF-8 capable terminal such as Windows Terminal.

Typical search utilities provide only the list of matches including all the versions and all the manifests for that app. SS can also filter out all the noise in the report, displaying only the latests manifest of the highest version of each app.

The result is displated with color coding for easy identigication of the matched words, the official buckets, and the bucket of the newer manifest available for each app.

SS can provide the output as a PSObject format so other PowerShell utilities could use the data for other tasks.

SS has an option that displays the homepage of each manifest. That makes easier to reasearch the source of the app, find details about it, etc.

SS Is compatible with the powerfull and fast Powershell Core from MS Store, or with the default Windows Powrshell included with Windows 10/11.

This app is a CLI utility for the Scoop framework and requires Scoop ackage Manager as a pre-requisite.

From there the installation is straightforward.

1. Add the definitive Scoop Master meta-bucket with all the scoop apps:

scoop bucket add .sm http://github.com/okibcn/ScoopMaster

2. Install SS:

scoop install ss

App update:

scoop update ss

App uninstall:

scoop uninstall ss

Usage: ss [ [ [-n] [ -s|-e ] [-l] [-o] [-p] [-r] ] | -h ] [Search_Patterns]

SS searches in all the known buckets at a lighning speed. It not only searches in the name field, but also in the desscription. Regex and UTF-8 compatible.

If you use more than one pattern, SS returns manifests matching all of them.

 Options:

  no opt. searches for all the matches in the name and description fields.
     -n   Searches only in the name field.
     -s   Simple search. searches an exact name match (implies -n).
     -e   Full expanded regex search.
     -l   Search latest versions only.
     -o   Search only in official buckets.
     -p   Shows homepage for each manifest.
     -r   raw, no color and no header. Outputs data as a PowerShell object.
     -h   Shows this help.

• Search for all the packages with both words in the name or description:

ss scoop search

• Search for an app in which the name contains both 'nvidia' AND 'driver'

ss -n nvidia driver 

• Simple search for the ss app

ss -s ss 

• Returns apps containing 'tool' and, 'nvidia' or 'radeon'

ss -n "nvidia|radeon" tool

• Get the latest manifests of scoop search utilities

ss -l search scoop 

• latests versions of apps ending in 'ss' starting with 's'

ss -n -l -e ss$ ^s 

• UTF-8 search of all the apps containing the word 音乐 (music) in the description.

ss -l 音乐 

• stores in the $apps variable a PSObject with all the Scoop manifests — more than 52,000.

$apps = ss -r .*