Related to:
Query Windows Search from Java
But this time to use OSX’s spotlight
I would like to consume OSX spotlight service from Java. Is there an API available?
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There is no Java API for Spotlight that I am aware of (I don’t think it was added to the now deprecated Cocoa-Java bridge development on the bridge was stopped). There is a procedural C API for Spotlight, however, that you could wrap with JNI.