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Welcome to Haystack!
====================
Haystack provides modular search for Django. It features a unified, familiar
API that allows you to plug in different search backends (such as Solr_,
Elasticsearch_, Whoosh_, Xapian_, etc.) without having to modify your code.
.. _Solr: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
.. _Elasticsearch: http://elasticsearch.org/
.. _Whoosh: https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/
.. _Xapian: http://xapian.org/
.. note::
This documentation represents Haystack 2.x. For old versions of the documentation: `1.2`_, `1.1`_.
.. _`1.2`: http://django-haystack.readthedocs.org/en/v1.2.6/index.html
.. _`1.1`: http://django-haystack.readthedocs.org/en/v1.1/index.html
Getting Started
---------------
If you're new to Haystack, you may want to start with these documents to get
you up and running:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
tutorial
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
views_and_forms
templatetags
glossary
management_commands
faq
who_uses
other_apps
installing_search_engines
debugging
migration_from_1_to_2
python3
contributing
Advanced Uses
-------------
Once you've got Haystack working, here are some of the more complex features
you may want to include in your application.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
best_practices
highlighting
faceting
autocomplete
boost
signal_processors
multiple_index
rich_content_extraction
spatial
admin
Reference
---------
If you're an experienced user and are looking for a reference, you may be
looking for API documentation and advanced usage as detailed in:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
searchqueryset_api
searchindex_api
inputtypes
searchfield_api
searchresult_api
searchquery_api
searchbackend_api
architecture_overview
backend_support
settings
utils
Developing
----------
Finally, if you're looking to help out with the development of Haystack,
the following links should help guide you on running tests and creating
additional backends:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
running_tests
creating_new_backends
Requirements
------------
Haystack has a relatively easily-met set of requirements.
* Python 2.7+ or Python 3.3+
* Django 1.6+
Additionally, each backend has its own requirements. You should refer to
:doc:`installing_search_engines` for more details.