vivawaves/searxng

SearXNG

builds custom SearXNG container with a changed simple theme and settings.yml; This project builds on top of https://github.com/searxng/searxng (SearXNG vs SearX: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/46)

Project Links

Production Server / Instance : https://paulgo.io

DockerHub : https://hub.docker.com/r/paulgoio/searxng

GitHub : https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng

GitLab : https://paulgo.dev/paulgoio/searxng

Basic Example

• docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 paulgoio/searxng:production

• After that just visit http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser and stop the server with ctrl-c

Production Setup

Check out the docker-compose.yml file in this repo for reference

Development

• Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng.git

• After making your changes in src/less make sure to update src/css by running update.sh (python, npm and make needed)

• You can build the docker container locally by running (check out base branch for the alpine base with the needed python packages): docker build --pull -f ./Dockerfile -t searxng-dev:latest .

• Debug the local container with: docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 searxng-dev:latest

Environment Variables (all optional: if not set -> using default settings)

• IMAGE_PROXY : enable the image proxyfication through SearXNG; the builtin image proxy is used (set this to true)

• REDIS_URL : set the URL of redis server to store data for limiter plugin (for example redis://redis:6379/0 or unix:///usr/local/searxng-redis/run/redis.sock?db=0)

• LIMITER : limit bot traffic; this option also requires redis to be set up

• BASE_URL : set the base url (for example example.org would have https://example.org/ as base)

• NAME : set the name of the instance, which is for example displayed in the title of the site (for example PaulGO)

• PRIVACYPOLICY : set URL of privacy policy of the instance (for example https://example.org/privacy-policy)

• CONTACT : set instance maintainer contact (for example mailto:[email protected])

• ISSUE_URL : set issue url for custom SearXNG repo (for example https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng/issues !Without trailing /)

• GIT_URL : set git url for custom SearXNG repo (for example https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng)

• GIT_BRANCH : set git branch for custom SearXNG repo (for example main)

• PROXY : set proxy servers that are applied as round robin for all engines; seperate multiple proxies with a comma (for example http://example.org:8080,http://proxy.example.net)

• UWSGI_WORKERS : set the amount of uwsgi workers (each worker can handle http requests to the server); defaults to the amount of cors the server has (for example: 4)

• UWSGI_THREADS : set the amount of uwsgi threads per worker; so each worker has the amount of threads defined here; defaults to 4 (for example: 4)