Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
Searx.space lists ready-to-use running instances.
A user, admin and developer handbook is available on the homepage.
Ask questions or chat with the SearXNG community (this not a chatbot) on
IRC
#searxng on libera.chat which is bridged to Matrix.
Matrix
#searxng:matrix.org
A well maintained Docker image, also built for ARM64 and ARM/v7 architectures.
Alternatively there are up to date installation scripts.
For individual setup consult our detailed Step by step instructions.
To fine-tune your instance, take a look at the Administrator documentation.
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Are you a developer? Have a look at our development quickstart guide, it's very easy to contribute. Additionally we have a developer documentation.
You can contribute from your browser using GitHub Codespaces:
Fork the repository
Click on the <> Code
green button
Click on the Codespaces
tab instead of Local
Click on Create codespace on master
VSCode is going to start in the browser
Wait for git pull && make install
to appear and then disappear
You have 120 hours per month (see also your list of existing Codespaces)
You can start SearXNG using make run
in the terminal or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B