Sherlock is an exciting new search technology for use in the Mac OS. Sherlock brings together several searching facilities including searching for files using file system information, searching files according to their textual content, and searching for information on the Internet. Links on this page provide access to information about convenient and easy to use APIs available to developers interested in extending Sherlock to access their data formats or Internet based search facilities.

Last updated: 8-October-99

Internet Search Plug-ins
This section provides links to web pages that provide information on developing Internet Search Plug-ins:

• Technote 1141, "Extending and Controlling Sherlock"
  Technical documentation describing how to make Internet Search Plug-ins.

Find By Content
This section provides links to web pages that provide information about using and extending the Find by Content facilities used by Sherlock:

• Technote 1180, "Sherlock's Find By Content Library"
  A description of the "Find By Content" library and the API developers can use for calling it from their applications.
• Technote 1181, "Sherlock's Find by Content Text Extractor Plug-ins"
  This technote documents how developers can create or call plug-ins that allow textual information from binary files.

Sherlock Web Sites

• Apple's Sherlock Pages
  Apple's Sherlock web pages.
• Apple's Sherlock Plug-in Directory
  Apple's Sherlock plug-in directory.

Sherlock Development Resources
Apple tools, sample code, and documentation to help you with your Sherlock projects. For general Mac OS resources, please see the Mac OS page.

• Apple Development Tools
  Learn more about Apple products for helping you develop excellent Mac OS software
• Software Development Kits (SDKs)
  A listing of available Software Development Kits
• Software Licensing
  A listing of Apple Licensable Software
  

Sherlock Mailing Lists

• Sherlock-Talk Mailing List
  A non-Apple mailing list including discussion of interest to Internet Search Plug-in authors.
  

Report Bugs
Web forms to report bugs against Sherlock.

• Report Bugs Here
  Links to web forms for entering information to report problems found in Apple software