Fast scoop search drop-in replacement 🚀

scoop install scoop-search

Instead of using scoop-search.exe <term> you can create a hook that will run scoop-search.exe whenever you use native scoop search

Add this to your Powershell profile (usually located at $PROFILE)

. ([ScriptBlock]::Create((& scoop-search --hook | Out-String)))

If you use cmd.exe you can use a wrapper script to do the same. Name this scoop.cmd and add it to a directory in your %PATH%

@echo off

if "%1" == "search" (
    call :search_subroutine %*
) else (
    powershell scoop.ps1 %*
)
goto :eof

:search_subroutine
set "args=%*"
set "newargs=%args:* =%"
scoop-search.exe %newargs%
goto :eof

Behaves just like scoop search and returns identical output. If any differences are found please open an issue.

Non-goal: any additional features unavailable in scoop search

This project uses Zig. Building and running works on all platforms, not only Windows.

Build with (output is stored in ./zig-out/bin):

zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast

Run debug with:

zig build run -- searchterm

Done with hyperfine. scoop-search is on average 350 times faster.

❯ hyperfine --warmup 1 'scoop-search google' 'scoop search google'
Benchmark 1: scoop-search google
  Time (mean ± σ):      60.3 ms ±   3.5 ms    [User: 91.2 ms, System: 394.2 ms]
  Range (min … max):    55.1 ms …  73.8 ms    49 runs

Benchmark 2: scoop search google
  Time (mean ± σ):     21.275 s ±  2.657 s    [User: 9.604 s, System: 11.789 s]
  Range (min … max):   19.143 s … 27.035 s    10 runs

Summary
  scoop-search google ran
  352.74 ± 48.49 times faster than scoop search google

ran on AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ 3.6GHz