Welcome to SearXNG

Search without being tracked.

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 instances listed at searx.space. 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)

info

SearXNG development has been started in the middle of 2021 as a fork of the searx project.

Contents

• User information
  • Search syntax
• Why use a private instance?
  • How does SearXNG protect privacy?
  • Conclusion
• Administrator documentation
  • Installation
  • Step by step installation
  • uwsgi
  • Install with nginx
  • Install with apache
  • Docker installation
  • Switch from searx to SearXNG
  • How to update
  • How to inspect & debug
  • Engines & Settings
  • Administration API
  • Architecture
  • How to protect an instance
  • How to setup result proxy
  • Plugins builtin
  • Buildhosts
• Developer documentation
  • Development Quickstart
  • How to contribute
  • Engine Overview
  • Offline Engines
  • Search API
  • Plugins
  • Translation
  • Developing in Linux Containers
  • Makefile
  • reST primer
  • Tooling box searxng_extra
• Admin’s tooling box
  • utils/searx.sh
  • utils/filtron.sh
  • utils/morty.sh
  • utils/lxc.sh
  • Common commands & environment
  • Tooling box setup
• Source-Code
  • Custom message extractor (i18n)
  • Load Engines
  • Demo Offline Engine
  • Demo Online Engine
  • Google Engines
  • Tineye
  • Yahoo Engine
  • Online /info
  • Locales
  • Limiter Plugin
  • Redis Library
  • Search
  • Redis DB
  • Utility functions for the engines
• Donate to searxng.org
  • Why donating?
  • Payment methods