RSS Based Search

Most home grown websites don’t have a search function due to the complication of needing to set up a database of some sort. Others try adding a search function from one of the main search engine providers. Most of these have fairly undesirable behavior where the visitor has to leave the site to view the results. The results are also only as good as the info the bots crawling through the site have gathered.

RSS feed
Here’s a thought … enable one of these then parse it against user entered keywords. Implement that as a search result in a Jekyll theme format like Minimal Mistakes. Perhaps even highlight the key words as you type… Now where to begin?

Code

Looking around the net there is a guy named Kushagra Gour who has some javascript code under the MIT license that he’s called Super-Search. It might be a good start.

Project

Project Started!
The Super Search Implementation - acronym ssimp.
See it in action on this site.