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Show HN: FileTap โ€“ REST API for indexing and querying file metadata

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Indexes a local directory or GitHub repository and serves file metadata through a queryable HTTP API with filtering, sorting, and pagination.

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FileTap does not watch the filesystem for changes. The file index is built at startup; restart the server to pick up new or modified files.

The raw endpoint serves local files directly and returns a 307 redirect for GitHub sources.

Each file has the following fields, all usable for filtering, selection, and sorting (except dirs , which cannot be sorted):

Filter files using field[operator]=value query parameters: