What is Torry Search Engine?
Torry Search Engine is a specialized search engine focused on indexing open source libraries, components, scripts, plugins, and code snippets for software development. It has a database of over 200,000 files that programmers can search through to find reusable code and tools to help build their applications.
The search engine is particularly useful for finding code written in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi/Pascal, Visual Basic, Perl, Python, PHP, and more. It brings together open source code repositories, articles, blogs and forums relevant to these programming languages.
Some of the main features and content Torry indexes includes:
- Reusable source code snippets and libraries for tasks like database access, algorithms, communication protocols, XML & web services, compression, security, multimedia, GUI, system calls, and more
- Plugins and extensions for software like Visual Studio, Eclipse, Delphi, etc.
- Code templates, components, controls, wrappers, and frameworks
- Scripts like regular expressions, installers, automation tools
- Software utilities, tools, compilers, interpreters & IDEs
The search engine provides advanced search functionality to find very specific types of code and libraries. Users can search by programming language, license type, file type, platform, and code functionality. An active community of developers also submits new open source code to the Torry database regularly.
Google Search, DuckDuckGo, Searx, YOU.com, Kagi Search, Startpage, Qwant, SearXNG, YaCy, Openverse, Brave Search, Ecosia are some alternatives to Torry Search Engine.