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Hi! Thanks in advance! |
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JSON needs to be activated in the By example: search:
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formats:
- html
- jsonIn the API use |
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Thanks for your quick reply! |
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No, sorry I don't .. may you like to ask on our Matrix channel .. #searxng:matrix.org We did not enable JSON by default, since it is often missused by bots.
Maintain an instance is a lot of work; the maintenance must be continuous and one must have experience in the operation of WEB services --> If ever possible I recommend to use a public instance. |
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OK, thanks! I'll ask on[#searxng:matrix.org. I have no experience with web services, so I'll keep this solution aside for now. I just want to build a UI that will let me save my search parameters and organise the results differently. If I could use an already running instance's API to get the results in JSON, that would be awesome. I have another question: I've read the docs on searxng's syntax for more precise searches. But there doesn't seem to be as many tools as other search engine. For example, google accepts the "inurl" keyword. |
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SearXNG itself does not have those keywords, since SearXNG is an aggregator and not all connected engines do support those keywords. SearXNG pass the entire search term to the engines .. if you know the engine (google) and the keyword-syntax ( A better example (with language selected): |
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oh ok! So I could write specific queries for each search engine. Or if I only select google from the search engine list, I could send requests using it's syntax. That's seems fine for my needs. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions! |
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while this is the top answer in top engine like Google and Bing the link should be corrected by: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/settings/settings_search.html |
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@vojkovic I'd like one as well if you could. My purpose is to use my own private instance but wanting the extra privacy of using a public instance(s). I was hoping to aggregate a couple of them so the search load would be spread among them similar the idea of splitting DNS traffic among upstream servers. Thank you! |
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Hm 🤔 ... isn't that what bots do? ;-) |
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I'm very interested in this private api method. I self host for friends and family and I'd guess they might give the URL out to others too, which is fine. I've never had any problems with abuse. But now I want to enable json (at least) for personal use with AI agents and have some sort of protection in place for results returned in these formats, while keeping html results open. Is this process documented somewhere? Or would you mind sharing how you're doing this? Thank you. |
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Hi - I have custom patches that I apply to my SearXNG instance, priv.au - the source for the auth is here. You could use my fork - there's a docker container, the docs are here. I'm running quite busy currently so I don't have the time to draft a proper PR for this feature and I'm not sure if the maintainers even want such a feature. |
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This looks great. tyvm! |
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JSON needs to be activated in the
formatssettings in thesearchsection: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/engines/settings.html#searchBy example:
In the API use
fromat=json--> https://docs.searxng.org/dev/search_api.html?highlight=format