Installation — SearXNG Documentation (2025.12.30+a5c946a32)
docs.searxng.org

The instances that give the best results seem to also get throttled pretty often on the source search engines, to the point of near uselessness.

Thinking of hosting my own, but the maintenance seems pretty involved according to the docs.

What’s your experience been like?

Edit: all right y’all, thanks for the feedback. I’m going to spin up an instance.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    The amazing thing about it is that with an instance of meilisearch I was able to index all my media libraries/book libraries/game libraries and searching for !home <query> actually sarches within my home lab, which is a huge win for me.

    I’m intrigued. I’ve always wanted to point my search engine to my ebook library and be able to search them for data. Scrape my library as it were. I’ve also wanted to change the Searxng log as well, to personalize it.