.. SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later

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Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine_

If you are looking for running instances, ready to use, then visit searx.space_. Otherwise jump to the user_, admin_ and developer_ handbooks you will find on our homepage_.

|SearXNG install| |SearXNG homepage| |SearXNG wiki| |AGPL License| |Issues| |commits| |weblate| |SearXNG logo|

.. _searx.space: https://searx.space .. _user: https://docs.searxng.org/user .. _admin: https://docs.searxng.org/admin .. _developer: https://docs.searxng.org/dev .. _homepage: https://docs.searxng.org/ .. _metasearch engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

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Contact

Come join us if you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG.

Matrix #searxng:matrix.org <https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org>_

IRC #searxng on libera.chat <https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#searxng>_ which is bridged to Matrix.

Differences to searx

SearXNG is a fork of searx_. Here are some of the changes:

.. _searx: https://github.com/searx/searx

User experience

• Huge update of the simple theme:

  • usable on desktop, tablet and mobile
  • light and dark versions (you can choose in the preferences)
  • support right-to-left languages
  • see the screenshots <https://dev.searxng.org/screenshots.html>_

• the translations are up to date, you can contribute on Weblate_

• the preferences page has been updated:

  • you can see which engines are reliable or not
  • engines are grouped inside each tab
  • each engine has a description

• thanks to the anonymous metrics, it is easier to report a bug of an engine and thus engines get fixed more quickly

  • if you don't want any metrics to be recorded, you can disable them on the server <https://docs.searxng.org/admin/engines/settings.html#general>_

• administrator can block and/or replace the URLs in the search results <https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/5c1c0817c3996c5670a545d05831d234d21e6217/searx/settings.yml#L191-L199>_

Setup

• you don't need Morty_ to proxy the images even on a public instance
• you don't need Filtron_ to block bots, we implemented the builtin limiter_
• you get a well maintained Docker image_, now also built for ARM64 and ARM/v7 architectures
• alternatively we have up to date installation scripts

.. _Docker image: https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker

Contributing is easier

• readable debug log
• contributions to the themes are made easier, check out our Development Quickstart_ guide
• a lot of code cleanup and bug fixes
• the dependencies are up to date

.. _Morty: https://github.com/asciimoo/morty .. _Filtron: https://github.com/searxng/filtron .. _limiter: https://docs.searxng.org/src/searx.plugins.limiter.html .. _Weblate: https://weblate.bubu1.eu/projects/searxng/searxng/ .. _Development Quickstart: https://docs.searxng.org/dev/quickstart.html

Translations

We need translators, suggestions are welcome at https://weblate.bubu1.eu/projects/searxng/searxng/

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Make a donation

You can support the SearXNG project by clicking on the donation page: https://docs.searxng.org/donate.html