Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for media resource retrieval and an electronic device. where the method for media resource retrieval includes: receiving a retrieval instructions from a client; and extracting a keyword from the retrieval instructions, extracting, from an inverted index file according to the keyword, relevant information having the keyword, and feed back the information, as a retrieval result, to the client, wherein the inverted index file stores relevant information of a relevant media file. With the above technical solutions, all information of the relevant media file is pre-stored into the inverted index file, and after receiving the retrieval instructions from the client, the server may directly extract, from the inverted index file, information conforming to the retrieval instruction, and feed back the information to the client.