Is is possible to use Everything SDK from Nodejs?

[defc]

I am a Nodejs developer and would like to use the SDK, since it can be used from Python, C# etc it shouldn't be hard but I haven't seen any examples etc.

[void]

I haven't tested this..

You'll need node-ffi or other library to load dlls in js.

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var ffi = require("ffi")
var ref = require("ref")

var everything = ffi.Library("./Everything32.dll", {
  'Everything_SetSearchW' : [ ref.types.void, [ref.types.CString]],
  'Everything_QueryW' : [ ref.types.uint, [ref.types.uint]],
  'Everything_GetNumResults' : [ ref.types.uint, [ref.types.void]],
})

Try calling:
everything.Everything_SetSearchW("txt");
-I'm not sure about using ref.types.CString for wchar_t
everything.Everything_QueryW(TRUE);
and see if everything.Everything_GetNumResults returns some results.
We can work from there..

https://github.com/node-ffi/node-ffi
https://github.com/node-ffi/node-ffi/wi ... I-Tutorial
https://github.com/node-ffi/node-ffi/issues/75
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/361 ... -using-ffi

[defc]

Thank you, thats very helpful. I will try this out as soon as I get some time. I've read on this forum that the SDK is not going to be as fast as the app itself, due to overhead of IPC, but we'll see.

[void]

Getting *all* results is slow over IPC.

Getting a page of results is just as fast as the Everything Search window.
You can use Everything_SetOffset and Everything_SetMax to limit your results to a page.