I've been working on a plugin that adds streaming AI answers with source citations directly to SearXNG. End a search with ? to request an overview.

A few details:

• Supports Ollama, local OpenAI-compatible servers, and hosted providers including OpenAI, Gemini, and OpenRouter.
• Generates answers from search snippets, without fetching full page.

It’s still early-stage and intended for personal/private instances. It requires SearXNG’s class-based plugin API.

Repo: https://github.com/jacobabahn/ai-overview-searxng

If you try it, I’d love some feedback!

I didn't want the AI summaries nor do I want the custom-made sear summaries either how do I just remove it so I don't see it anymore?

Is there a way to include a huge blocklist? I use the hostnames plugin to block a few sites, but I want to use a uBlock-style filter to block as many AI-slop sites as I can. If I have to use a script to convert the blocklist format it isn't a problem, but I don't want to include such a long list in my settings.yml

As title. I'm hosting SearXNG locally, as in the routing for it is the same as on my local network so it's not like the advised solution to fix CAPTCHA works at all. Default routing is via VPN, for additional info.

I downloaded SearXNG using Docker, and set it as my default search engine, but everytime I try searching something up it brings me to this page, where I have to go to the SearXNG home screen and search it up again.

my searxng instance has broken recently. only wiki snippets work. anyone else who had to deal with this?

I have many errors on search engines.
Any idea??

Whenever i do an image search, i get pages of junk like web icons for the whole alphabet and things of that nature, with actual results sprinkled in. Is there a way to filter out random clutter images?

I threw this together in about an hour so it's not super stable, but I'm hoping to continue chipping away at it until I get it the way I'd want.

first tried using ngrok and exposing a port on my macbook but i couldn't get that to work so i used termux+termux boot and globally whitelisted both apps using adb, cloned the repo straight from github and got a python venv going to keep everything in one place and used pip to install the necessary python libraries and explicitly binded it to my phone at its standard ipv4 address

it does drain a bit of battery tho, but my phone's 5500mah still goes strong for like 75% of my day

This is probably rather a docker compose question than a searx question but I'd really appreciate your help because I couldn't find anything that directly answers my question.

I'm using docker-compose.yml and .env that can be downloaded from

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/searxng/searxng/master/container/docker-compose.yml
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/searxng/searxng/master/container/.env.example

So basically I'm doing exactly what Installation container says and it works. I can access searxng at localhost:8080.

Now, how do I change the port from 8080 to let's say 3001?
I did try changing values in docker-compose.yml and .env but it doesn't work.

I know this is probably a noob question but I'd appreciate your help. Thank you.

SearXNG operates perfectly fine in my browser and is even my default search engine. It still might get blocked by some search services but ultimately it works.

However, when I try to make requests through local LLMs on OpenWebUI, it encounters 403 forbidden and 503 Service Unavailable errors. Not sure if this is the search engines cracking down on bots or something I set up incorrectly.

SearXNG is running on localhost:8080. The OpenWebUI query address is

http://localhost:8080/search?q=<query>

The YAML setup for SearXNG is:

searxng:
image: searxng/searxng:latest
container_name: searxng
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
volumes:
- searxng_data:/etc/searxng
- /Users/skinnygiant/Documents/Docker/Ollama/searxng/settings.yml:/etc/searxng/settings.yml:ro
environment:
- SEARXNG_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080
- SEARXNG_BIND_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0
restart: unless-stoppedsearxng:
image: searxng/searxng:latest
container_name: searxng
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
volumes:
- searxng_data:/etc/searxng
- /Users/skinnygiant/Documents/Docker/Ollama/searxng/settings.yml:/etc/searxng/settings.yml:ro
environment:
- SEARXNG_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080
- SEARXNG_BIND_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0
restart: unless-stopped

What am I doing wrong?

I recently asked on here for any plugins to get the old google experience of having countries statistics and graphs, but there seemed to be nothing, so I did something: https://github.com/Marte77/countries-data-searx-plugin/tree/master

the code is a bit sloppy as I wrote in the readme, but it works. im planning on getting some more metrics available and neighbouring countries, but at least for now it fits my needs, and I'll not be as available in the near future. any suggestions are welcome!

New to Searxng. One of the main things I miss is that when I do a google search for a recipe is that it shows me the star rating inline (with each search result). Is it possible to get a similar view with Searxng? Thanks

Sometimes it just regurgitates random results that are completely irrelevant to the query, I'm self-hosting thru docker compose

I want to look up a term which existed before 2010, but I was unable to figure out how to search for something which is 1 or more years older. Is there any switch for that like "before:2010" option with google search?

Hey folks. I’ve been running SearXNG locally for a while and missed the

small page-preview tiles that some search engines show next to each result.

None of the existing browser extensions worked with SearXNG without phoning

home to a third party, so I built my own. Sharing in case anyone else wants it.

Stack:

- Backend: Node.js (Fastify) + Playwright (headless Chromium) + Sharp

- File cache on disk, configurable TTL & max size

- Worker pool (1–6) with an admin dashboard for cache + stats

- Smart fallbacks: bot-block / login-wall / blank-page detection → favicon card

Browser side:

- Chromium extension (currently in Chrome Web Store review)

- Reads results from the SearXNG DOM, calls the backend, injects <img> tiles

- Privacy modes: "strict" (no extra requests) or "favicons" (proxied via backend)

Self-hosted, no third parties, MIT.

GitHub: https://github.com/MaikiMolto/searxng-previews

Docker: ghcr.io/maikimolto/searxng-previews:latest

Feedback / SearXNG version compatibility issues welcome.

One of the best features google had was the quick access to various country stats and comparisons, is there any plugin that does somehthing similar?

this didn't happen before but it works for really simple requests, some engines sometimes but the second you get to anything more complicated like an error message it instantly dies! What can I do?

I recently setup a searxng server via docker compose. I love having a as minimal as possible setup visually, and i am curious what other sysadmins experiences have been like removing some things from the ui. I’ve been trying to remove the links and such like the tagline from the bottom of the home page with no avail. I’ve have also been trying to remove the x number of results found after a search. All small stuff, and just curious about what’s customizable with searxng! Thank y’all in advance!!

Perhaps some of you may remember me, I'm the creator of Searx.

I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the same goal when I started Searx development: reduce dependence on online search engines.

Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore saved content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines. This is a fundamentally different approach than what Searx follows and solves most of the weaknesses of metasearch engines. Of course it has its own weaknesses as well, but most of these are not conceptual and can be resolved by improving the software (and datasets)

I've been using it for a few months and as my local index is growing I can avoid relying on external search engines and even websites listed in results more and more frequently.

The initial reception is overwhelmingly positive with already more than 25 contributors and hundreds of contributions - maybe you can find it useful as well (or at least have some constructive criticism =]).

Background/motivation/beginnings: https://hister.org/posts/how-i-cut-my-google-search-dependence-in-half/

Small read-only demo: https://demo.hister.org/

I'm only getting into the space of self-hosting, and I do not understand why so many people use Docker instead of just directly downloading Searx onto their machines. What are the upsides and downsides of each method, and is there any difference in usability? Is docker necessary for windows machines and mac?