Welcome to searx

Search without being tracked.

Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity.

Features

• Self hosted

• No user tracking

• No user profiling

• About 70 supported search engines

• Easy integration with any search engine

• Cookies are not used by default

• Secure, encrypted connections (HTTPS/SSL)

• Hosted by organizations, such as La Quadrature du Net, which promote digital rights

Contents

• User documentation
  • Search syntax
  • Why use a private instance?
• Administrator documentation
  • Installation
  • Step by step installation
  • uwsgi
  • Install with nginx
  • Install with apache
  • Docker installation
  • How to update
  • How to inspect & debug
  • settings.yml
  • Administration API
  • Architecture
  • How to protect an instance
  • How to setup result proxy
  • Engines
  • How to create private engines
  • Run shell commands from your instance
  • Search in indexers
  • Query SQL and NoSQL servers
  • Plugins builtin
  • Buildhosts
• Developer documentation
  • Development Quickstart
  • How to contribute
  • Engine overview
  • Search API
  • Plugins
  • Translation
  • Makefile
  • reST primer
• Tooling box searx_extra for developers and users
  • searx_extra/standalone_searx.py
• Admin’s tooling box
  • utils/searx.sh
  • utils/filtron.sh
  • utils/morty.sh
  • utils/lxc.sh
  • Common commands & environment
  • Tooling box setup
• Blog
  • Private searx project is finished
  • Query more of your NoSQL stores
  • Query SQL servers
  • Query your local search engines
  • Running shell commands to fetch results
  • Developing in Linux containers [202006]
  • Limit access to your searx engines
  • Preparation for offline engines
  • Searx admin interface
  • Introducing Python 3 support