Searxng as search provider [free, open source]

[flozi00]

https://github.com/searxng/searxng
https://searx.space/

Searx would be an free alternative for personal use to the serp providers.
What do you think about integrating it ?
I could start an PR for that if you are open for

[nsarrazin]

Hey! I think it would be nice to support an open source search tool for sure. Feel free to open a PR with an integration and let me know if you need help.

[flozi00]

Great, I will add it tomorrow

It's only one file, correct ? https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui/blob/main/src/lib/server/websearch/searchWeb.ts

[nsarrazin]

Thanks! Yes it's this file, you can also add an empty entry to the .env so people know it's a field that can be filled.

[flozi00]

export async function searchSearx(query: string) {
	query = encodeURI(query);
	const response = await fetch("https://searx.dresden.network/search?categories=general&format=json&q=" + query, {
		method: "GET",
		headers: {
			"Content-type": "application/json; charset=UTF-8",
		},
	});

	/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any */
	var data = (await response.json()) as Record<string, any>;

	if (!response.ok) {
		throw new Error(
			data["message"] ??
			`Searx API returned error code ${response.status} - ${response.statusText}`
		);
	}

	for (let i = 0; i < data.results.length; i++) {
		data.results[i]["link"] = data.results[i]["url"];
	}

	return {
		organic_results: data["results"] ?? [],
		knowledge_graph: data["infoboxes"][0]["content"] ?? null,
		answer_box: data["answers"] ?? null,
	};
}

I never used ts, so maybe its faster if you pick up this code and add it, otherwise i will play more around with that
For example I dont find where to add the if statement to show the search in web option in UI

[gary149]

Feel free to open a PR for it (adding it to the 2 existing providers).