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 just chat about SearXNG on
- IRC
#searxng on libera.chat which is bridged to Matrix.
- Matrix
- 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
<> Codegreen button - Click on the
Codespacestab instead ofLocal - Click on
Create codespace on master - VSCode is going to start in the browser
- Wait for
git pull && make installto appear and then disappear - You have 120 hours per month (see also your list of existing Codespaces)
- You can start SearXNG using
make runin the terminal or by pressingCtrl+Shift+B