Features

CodeCrawler combines the best of web search engines and grep tools, and extends them with knowledge about programming language syntax and source code semantics to allow more intelligent searches.

• Intuitive web-based search
• Viewing of source code online - formatted with line numbers and syntactic highlighting
• Sorting of results by relevance or by file modification date
• Relevance ranking based on intuitive importance of semantic constructs (e.g. class names are more important than variable names)
• Partial matches of program identifiers based on popular programming notations - Hungarian notation (e.g. m_nSize), Camel case notation (e.g. getFileName), etc.
• Searching for specific semantic constructs (e.g. class:Employee) or file information (e.g. filename:test or language:java)
• Wildcard (e.g. get???Color*), exact phrase (e.g. "public int"), and boolean search queries (e.g. +class NOT employee)
• Powerful advanced search allowing users to construct complex search queries, to specify multiple programming languages, results per page, sort order, etc.

• Add multiple source code repositores. Currently CodeCrawler supports the following types of repositories:
  • CVS (pserver)
  • WebDAV
  • Local file system
• Select wildcard filters for files to be included in the search index (e.g. *.java, *.c??, etc.)
• Scheduling of index generation
• Themes for source code syntactic highlighting
• Allowed programming languages (from the list of supported languages) and file extensions associated with them
• Relevance of different programming language semantic constructs (e.g. class, method, typedef, etc.) and additional file information (e.g. filename, programming language, etc.)