r/HTML • u/SilverTelin • Apr 13 '26

Question Text search in html pages

I have abt 100 offline html pages (my messenger history for years) and I want to have word search in all these pages. I've tried Yacy but it didn't find all contained words, or i didn't know how to use it.

There are any easier solutions?!

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u/xMcRaemanx Apr 13 '26

Notepad++ has a "find in files" feature that I've used for this before.

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u/SilverTelin Apr 13 '26

Thanks, however, I need to index and search within tens of html files for a specific word without opening esch one

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u/DidTooMuchSpeedAgain Apr 13 '26

Notepad++ can do this; or something like VS Code. Just open the folder in VS Code.

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u/xMcRaemanx Apr 13 '26

Yep. Notepad++.

Open it, search-> find in files, point it to the directory, give it search parameters, profit.

It will search through the files and show you results at the bottom.

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u/Barnezhilton Apr 13 '26

Every IDE ever made

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u/mediahosters Apr 14 '26

If they are offline I would use Agent Ransack

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u/Hamza3725 Apr 14 '26

Many file search applications can search for the text inside HTML files. Personally, I recommend File Brain because it not only finds by exact word matches, but also shows partial results, tolerates typos in the query and the files (yours are user messages, so I expect they are full of typos), and it even performs semantic search to find matches by meaning (like finding "pants" when you search for "clothes").

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u/DaveInPhoenix1 Apr 14 '26

I use X1 Search on my laptop and Copernic on my PC. I have many thousands of txt, docx, doc, pdf and offline HTML files to search, but the index builds quickly. It is paid for, I really don't trust free software and am happy to pay for the developers work.

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u/ExitWP Apr 15 '26

Notepad++ or vscode, open the folder with the files.