Hoogle

Hoogle is a Haskell API search engine. It allows you to search by either name, or by approximate type signature. The standard web interface to Hoogle is available at http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/.

Using Hoogle

There are several ways to interact with hoogle, pick which one works best for you:

• The web interface: http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/.
• The LambdaBot plugin, active on Haskell IRC, using @hoogle and @hoogle+
• The command line version

Related Work

• Mikael Rittri, Using types as search keys in function libraries, Retrieving library identifiers via equational matching of types plus a few others.
• Colin Runciman and Ian Toyn, Retrieving re-usable software components by polymorphic type.
• Roberto Di Cosmo, Isomorphisms of Types: from Lambda Calculus to Information Retrieval and Language Design.

Downloads

• Released version
  • Hoogle Manual (wiki) (bibtex)(hide bibtex)
    @manual{mitchell:hoogle_manual
        ,title          = "Hoogle Manual (wiki)"
        ,author         = "Neil Mitchell"
        ,url            = "\verb'http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hoogle'"
    }
    
  • darcs get --partial http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/hoogle
• Related blog posts
• Hoogle - from PLASMA (bibtex)(hide bibtex)
  @misc{mitchell:hoogle_2005_12_8
      ,title          = "Hoogle"
      ,author         = "Neil Mitchell"
      ,year           = "2005"
      ,month          = "December"
      ,day            = "8"
      ,note           = "Presentation from PLASMA"
      ,url            = "\verb'http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/downloads/slides-hoogle-08_dec_2005.pdf'"
  }
  

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