Installing and running Pagefind

Pagefind is a static binary with no dynamic dependencies, so in most cases will be simple to install and run. Pagefind is currently supported on Windows, macOS, and x86-64 Linux distributions.

#Running via npx

npx pagefind --source "public"

Pagefind publishes a wrapper package through npm, which is the easiest way to get started. This package will download the correct binary of the latest release from GitHub for your platform and run it.

Specific versions can be run by passing a version tag:

npx pagefind@latest --source "public"

npx pagefind@v0.2.0 --source "public"

Running Pagefind via npx will download the pagefind_extended release, which includes specialized support for indexing Chinese and Japanese pages.

#Downloading a precompiled binary

If you prefer to install Pagefind yourself, you can download a precompiled release from GitHub and run the binary directly:

./pagefind --source "public"
# or
./pagefind_extended --source "public"

Pagefind publishes two releases, pagefind and pagefind_extended. The extended release is a larger binary, but includes specialized support for indexing Chinese and Japanese pages.

#Building from source

If you have Rust and Cargo installed, you can run cargo install pagefind to build from source.

cargo install pagefind
pagefind --source "public"

To build and install the extended version of Pagefind:

cargo install pagefind --features extended
pagefind --source "public"