Welcome to searxng

Search without being tracked.

Hint

This is not searx, but searxng.

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

Get started with searxng by using one of the Searx-instances. If you don’t trust anyone, you can set up your own, see Installation.

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)

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
  • Plugins builtin
  • Buildhosts
• Developer documentation
  • Development Quickstart
  • How to contribute
  • Engine overview
  • The XPath engine
  • 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
  • Developing in Linux containers [202006]
  • Introducing Python 3 support
  • Searx admin interface
  • Preparation for offline engines
  • Limit access to your searx engines
  • Running shell commands to fetch results
  • Query your local search engines
  • SQL engines