Baidu released the hard drive search open API and XML interface to programmers

This afternoon, I attended a discussion meeting on hard disk search product 2.0 organized by Baidu. In addition to demonstration of Hard Disk search products, I also mentioned two important releases, that is, the XML data of APIs and search results can be opened for programmers.

On the one hand, programmers can use open APIs to define search for specific files. For example, if you have created a file storage format or database format, these Apis can be used for interconnection, then generate a plug-in so that hard disk search can support your format. On the Baidu website, you can download the Foxmail support plug-in, so that you can search for the mail Information in Foxmail by using the hard disk.

Another new feature is the XML support for search results, that is, the results produced by search can be directly generated into documents in XML format. In this way, in the program, programmers can freely call the search results and display and process them according to their own program definitions. For example, if a user writes an image processing software, the results of Baidu hard disk search can be directly called in the program and seamlessly integrated into his own program.

In addition to the two functions open to programmers, I also think this program has two interesting features:

For example, searching for images and MP3 files is quite special. By parsing the tag information in images and MP3 files, you can perform hierarchical search in any way. In fact, these technologies should have been reflected in Apple's Tiger system, and Microsoft's Windows Vista should also integrate such features, however, it is clear that Baidu has made such work very valuable, especially for the in-depth support of the two important multimedia information contents of music and pictures.

In addition, the indexing speed of Hard Disk search has improved a lot. According to the developer of this product, this is mainly because the algorithm for parsing TAG content in multimedia problems has been greatly improved, the efficiency has been improved by more than 50%, so that the efficiency of the entire index can be improved by about 27%.

You can also visit the Baidu website to view the help information.

If you are interested in this product, you can download the corresponding program at http://disk.baidu.com.

If you are a developer, You can compile the Baidu hard drive search plug-in based on the SDK package provided by Baidu. For more information, see: http://disk.baidu.com/plug-ins/