Find Files by Keywords and Retrieve Information

[bhargavnova]

Objective:

Develop a Python script that can search for files containing specific keywords in a specified directory and provide certain information about those files.

Features:

• Search for files in a specified directory.
• Filter files based on specific keywords.
• Retrieve and display relevant information about the matched files.

Example Usage:

# Example usage of the file finder script
import file_finder

# Specify the directory and keywords
directory_path = "/path/to/directory"
keywords = ["keyword1", "keyword2", "keyword3"]

# Find files and retrieve information
file_finder.find_files_by_keywords(directory_path, keywords)

Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate

Tags: Python, File Handling, Scripting

Additional Information:

• Consider using the os module for file operations and content search.
• Provide options for case-insensitive search and handling subdirectories.

Contribution Guidelines

The updated guidelines can be found here.

Note:

• folder_name: file_finder
• script_name: file_finder

[lavanderhoney]

Hello @bhargavnova , I have a fair bit of experience in python and am very confident about solving this. Can you please assign this issue to me?

[bhargavnova]

Sure @lavanderhoney :) Happy Coding!

[lavanderhoney]

I have a question @bhargavnova. What information should be returned for a matched file? Like should it return at what index the word is found or how many keywords are found in that file?

[bhargavnova]

Hi @lavanderhoney, any information will do, like file location, name, last modified, etc.. your choice.