FossilTracker

A personal fossil collection catalogue with taxonomy, provenance, geological context, and specimen management, built with Python, SQLite, Streamlit and Datasette

A new way for AI to search for data

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2GitHub stars

117commits on main

0forks

1.5.1latest release, 2026-07-16

Python 98%, CSS 1.3%, Shell 0.6%, Dockerfile 0.2% · created 2026-07-03 · last push 2026-07-19

What XERJ indexed

Snapshot

87 files · 3.4 MB

The whole repository at commit b569c8729d. It is the newest commit on main.

Selected work

Dave Walker
@davewalker5

Licence

The repository

MIT

LICENSE file checked at the pinned commit; the author agreed to inclusion.

The XERJ corpus

MIT, with credit

The owner added it on hub.xerj.org after signing in with GitHub, on 2026-10-31. Same terms as the repository. Answers name the repo, the commit and the file:line.

selected for the XERJ Corpus Hublicence clearedsuggested use: adapt with attribution

datasettefossil-collectionsfossilsgeologynatural-historypalaeontologypythonspecimen-management

Example questions

How does FossilTracker implement datasette?
Show the fossil-collections code in FossilTracker.

Inside the indexed corpus

87 files, 3.4 MB in total, about 40.5 KB per file.
Languages by size: Python 98%, CSS 1.3%, Shell 0.6%, Dockerfile 0.2%.
On GitHub since 2026-07-03, last push 2026-07-19, 117 commits on main.

Licence on GitHub and in the corpus

GitHub reported MIT for davewalker5/FossilTracker on 2026-10-31, and the LICENSE file at commit b569c8729d was reviewed as MIT. They match, so answers from this corpus carry the same terms as the live repository.

Contributors

Dave Walker (@davewalker5) has 14 selected repositories on the hub.

Their other repository pages: davewalker5/ADS-B-BaseStationReader, davewalker5/ChromatophoreSimulator, davewalker5/OctopusController, davewalker5/FishTrack, davewalker5/LogSpiral, davewalker5/MolecularClockSimulation.

Using XERJ with FossilTracker

Full-text search a SQLite database (FTS5 alternative) FossilTracker is tagged sqlite on GitHub.
Search a SQL dump without restoring it The hub files it under Databases and storage engines.
Best grep alternative for AI coding agents (2026)
Ask questions about a GitHub repo without cloning it

The prompt

Paste it into your AI agent. It clones davewalker5/FossilTracker at the pinned commit and indexes it on your machine.

Search the GitHub repository davewalker5/FossilTracker with XERJ (https://hub.xerj.org/corpus/davewalker5--fossiltracker).
Run these in a shell, in order, and check each result before the next:
1. xerj --help  (success: it prints usage). If xerj is missing: curl -fsSL https://xerj.org/get | sh
2. git clone https://github.com/davewalker5/FossilTracker FossilTracker && git -C FossilTracker checkout b569c8729d083b9dcce6850da3f20aa9e2036ee9
3. Start a local node and leave it running: xerj --insecure --data-dir ./xerj-data
4. xerj autoindex ./FossilTracker --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix fossiltracker --progress plain
5. xerj autoindex map --url http://127.0.0.1:9200
Then answer my question from the indexed files and cite the ax_path of every hit. Query syntax: https://xerj.org/llms.txt
Licence: MIT. Keep the copyright notice and credit the authors.

Dave Walker Databases and storage engines corpora roian6/apple-health-ai-bridge totobusnello/memoria-nox PatilParas05/WhatsApp_Cruise_Control

Stats: GitHub API, fetched 2026-10-31. Snapshot: the git tree at the pinned commit. Selected work and consent: the XERJ registry.