Space Frontiers

Hermes Search Engine gRPC API

Self-hosted, MIT-licensed Rust search engine published by Space Frontiers (github.com/SpaceFrontiers/hermes) with a published protobuf wire contract: hermes.SearchService (Search, GetDocument, GetIndexInfo, GetTextStats) and hermes.IndexService (index creation, streaming ingestion, primary-key deletion and upsert, commit, merge, vector-index retraining), plus hermes.broker.BrokerService for shard topology. Distributed as crates (hermes-core, hermes-server, hermes-broker, hermes-tool), PyPI (hermes-client-python), npm (hermes-client-typescript, hermes-wasm). There is no hosted endpoint: you run hermes-server yourself.

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Documentation
https://github.com/SpaceFrontiers/hermes/blob/main/hermes-proto/README.md

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Protobuf
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/machinelibrary-ai/refs/heads/main/grpc/machinelibrary-ai-hermes.proto
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Protobuf
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/machinelibrary-ai/refs/heads/main/grpc/machinelibrary-ai-hermes-broker.proto
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SourceCode
https://github.com/SpaceFrontiers/hermes

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: Hermes Search Engine gRPC API
description: 'Self-hosted, MIT-licensed Rust search engine published by Space Frontiers (github.com/SpaceFrontiers/hermes)
  with a published protobuf wire contract: hermes.SearchService (Search, GetDocument, GetIndexInfo, GetTextStats)
  and hermes.IndexService (index creation, streaming ingestion, primary-key deletion and upsert, commit,
  merge, vector-index retraining), plus hermes.broker.BrokerService for shard topology. Distributed as
  crates (hermes-core, hermes-server, hermes-broker, hermes-tool), PyPI (hermes-client-python), npm (hermes-client-typescript,
  hermes-wasm). There is no hosted endpoint: you run hermes-server yourself.'
humanURL: https://github.com/SpaceFrontiers/hermes
x-deployment: self-hosted
x-no-hosted-base-url: The gRPC server is run by the consumer (cargo install hermes-server); Space Frontiers
  publishes no hosted Hermes endpoint, so no baseURL is recorded rather than inventing one.
tags:
- Search
- gRPC
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- search
- grpc
- open-source
- Open Source
- Open-Source
properties:
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/machinelibrary-ai-hermes.proto
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/machinelibrary-ai-hermes-broker.proto
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/SpaceFrontiers/hermes/blob/main/hermes-proto/README.md
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/SpaceFrontiers/hermes
aid: machinelibrary-ai:hermes-search-engine-grpc-api