Implementing full-text search with Whoosh

Whoosh is a fast, featureful, full-text indexing and searching library that's implemented in Python. It has a pure Pythonic API and allows developers to add search functionality to their applications easily and efficiently. In this recipe, we will use a package called Flask-WhooshAlchemy, which integrates the text-search functionality of Whoosh with SQLAlchemy for use in Flask applications.

Getting ready

The Flask-WhooshAlchemy package can be installed via pip using the following command:

 $ pip3 install git+git://github.com/gyllstromk/Flask-WhooshAlchemy.git

This will install the required packages and dependencies. This library is being cloned and installed from GitHub because...