Hi r/datascience 👋

I've spent a lot of time digging through databases & docs, and one thing that keeps slowing me (and my coding agents) is not being able to search across everything all at once.

So I built bm25-cli. It's a zero-config CLI that lets you run full-text search across your database schemas, tables, columns, keys, docs, comments, and metadata — in one command

So, how does it work?

Just point it at a source and search:

$ bm25 "payment handling refund" ./db_docs $ bm25 "payment handling refund" mysql://user@localhost/mydb $ bm25 "payment handling refund" postgres://user@localhost/mydb 

Mix and match:

$ bm25 "join error" postgres://user@localhost/mydb mysql://user@localhost/mydb ./mydocs 

No config files. No servers. No setup.

Works with everything

Why I find it useful

• One command for everything — files, schemas, and docs in a single search
• BM25 ranking — same algorithm that powers Elasticsearch and Lucene
• Databases too — searches table names, columns, types, foreign keys, and comments
• Fast after first run — indexes are cached in ~/.bm25/ and reused

If you're working with databases + coding agents, i'd love to hear what you think.

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GitHub: https://github.com/statespace-tech/bm25

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