Python script to search the ollama.com model database without leaving the comfort of your CLI. Also importable as a module if you want to call their search API programmatically.

ollamasearch.py

import aiohttp
import yarl
import bs4
import pathlib, re, click
import asyncio
from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
from typing import Optional, Union, Set, List

@asynccontextmanager
async def ensure_client_session(client_session=None):
    if client_session == None:
        async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as client_session:
            try:
                yield client_session
            finally:
                pass
    else:
        try:
            yield client_session
        finally:
            pass

from enum import Enum

class OllamaSearchCategory(Enum):
    EMBEDDING = 'embedding'
    VISION = 'vision'
    TOOLS = 'tools'
    THINKING = 'thinking'
    NONE = None

class OllamaSearchOrder(Enum):
    POPULAR = None
    NEWEST = 'newest'

from multidict import MultiDict

async def ollama_com_search(*query, category: Union[OllamaSearchCategory, Set[OllamaSearchCategory]] = [OllamaSearchCategory.NONE], order: OllamaSearchOrder = OllamaSearchOrder.POPULAR, client_session: Optional[aiohttp.ClientSession] = None, **kwargs):
    async with ensure_client_session(client_session) as client_session:
        url = yarl.URL('https://ollama.com/search')
        params = MultiDict({'q': ' '.join(list(query))})
        if not isinstance(category, (set, list)):
            category = {category,} if category != OllamaSearchCategory.NONE else set()
        for c in category:
            if c != OllamaSearchCategory.NONE:
                params.set('c', c.value if isinstance(c, OllamaSearchCategory) else str(c))
        if order != OllamaSearchOrder.POPULAR:
            params.set('o', order.value if isinstance(order, OllamaSearchOrder) else str(order))
        url = url.update_query(params)
        print(f"fetch(): url={url}, params={params}")
        async with client_session.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'}) as response:
            #response.raise_for_status()
            html = await response.text()
            print(f"got: {html}")
            soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
            listel = soup.find_all("ul", attrs={'role':'list'})[0]
            results = listel.find_all('li')
            for result in results:
                title = result.find('h2').text.strip()
                link = result.find('a')['href']
                yield title, link

async def ollama_com_library_tags(name: str, client_session: Optional[aiohttp.ClientSession] = None, **kwargs):
    async with ensure_client_session(client_session) as client_session:
        url = yarl.URL('https://ollama.com/library/{name}/tags')
        async with client_session.get(url) as response:
            response.raise_for_status()
            html = await response.text()
            soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
            mainel = soup.find_all('main')
            results = mainel[0].find_all('div', class_='group')
            for result in results:
                title = result.find('span', class_='group').text.strip()
                link = result.find('a')['href']
                yield title, link

@click.command()
@click.argument('query', type=str)
@click.option('--order', '-o', type=click.Choice(['popular', 'newest']), default='popular', help='Sort order')
@click.option('--category', '-c', multiple=True, required=False, type=click.Choice(['embedding', 'vision', 'tools', 'thinking']), default=[], help='Category filter')
def search(query: str, order: str, category: List[str]):
		asyncio.run(async_search(query, order={v.lower():k for v, k in OllamaSearchOrder.__members__.items()}[order], category=[{v.lower():k for v,k in OllamaSearchCategory.__members__.items()}[c] for c in category]))

async def async_search(query: str, order: str, category: List[str]):
    async with ensure_client_session() as client_session:
    		async for title, link in ollama_com_search(query, order=order, category=category, client_session=client_session):
    				print(title, link)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    search()

requirements.txt

aiohttp
bs4
click
yarl