Desktop client application for Searx/SearXNG/searx-space

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README.md

Searx-Qt

Desktop client application for Searx/SearXNG/searx-space.

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About

Search with Searx/SearXNG instances without the need for a complex web-browser.

Searx-Qt is a desktop application that lets you search on public SearXNG instances listed on https://searx.space (or you can add Searx or SearXNG instance urls manually).

The aim of the project is to preform search operations on Searx/SearXNG instances with the use of their API and without the need for a complex web-browser. Searx-Qt will do the bare minimum of what is required to search, no cookies and no javascript. Just render a Searx/SearXNG API request to something usefull.

Unfortunately most public SearXNG instances actively block requests to their JSON-API. But don't worry! Thats why there is a option in the SearXNG settings (which is on by default) to parse HTML instead, and still no javascript and no cookies.

For more detailed information about Searx-Qt see docs/index.rst or docs/index.html.

Note

The searx-space project no longer lists Searx instances (since 1 Sept. 2023) as the Searx project is no longer maintained. The 'new' Searx is a fork called SearXNG, only these instances will be listed by the searx-space project.

Most of the public SearXNG instances listed by searx-space don't allow the use of the API, they will see Searx-Qt as a bot and block the request, only a few public instances remain that don't have this strict policy.

What you can do about? Well you have the following options:

  • Setup your own Searx/SearXNG instance and add it manually to Searx-Qt.
  • Add a few remaining working Searx instances manually.
  • Use the Parse HTML option under SearXNG settings.

Searx / SearXNG

Actual search requests will be made to a server running the Searx/SearXNG software, there are many public available. We call such servers 'instances'.

Searx

The Searx project is no longer maintained but for now Searx-Qt will still support it.

SearXNG

searx-space

The searx-space project lists public SearXNG instances with statistics. The official instance is running at https://searx.space/. This is where Searx-Qt will request a list with instances when the update button is pressed by default (the searx-space url can be changed in the settings).


License

GPL3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)


Dependecies

name version license url
Python 3 PSFL https://docs.python.org/3/license.html
requests Apache 2 http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/
jsonschema >= 4.10 MIT https://github.com/python-jsonschema/jsonschema
PyQt5 GPL3 https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro
urllib3 MIT https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/
beautifulsoup4 MIT https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

* Optional

name version license url desc
pysocks BSD https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks For socks proxy support

Build

name version license url desc
gettext - GPL https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ Compiling translations.
PyQt5-Dev-Tools Qt5 GPL3 https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro Compiling theme icons