searxng/docs/dev/search_api.rst

Search API

The search supports both GET and POST.

Furthermore, two endpoints / and /search are available for querying.

GET /

GET /search

Parameters

Further reading ..

• engines-dev
• settings.yml
• configured engines

q : required

The search query. This string is passed to external search services. Thus, SearXNG supports syntax of each search service. For example, site:github.com SearXNG is a valid query for Google. However, if simply the query above is passed to any search engine which does not filter its results based on this syntax, you might not get the results you wanted.

See more at search-syntax

categories : optional

Comma separated list, specifies the active search categories (see configured engines)

engines : optional

Comma separated list, specifies the active search engines (see configured engines).

language : default from settings search

Code of the language.

pageno : default 1

Search page number.

time_range : optional

[ day, month, year ]

Time range of search for engines which support it. See if an engine supports time range search in the preferences page of an instance.

format : optional

[ json, csv, rss ]

Output format of results. Format needs to be activated in settings search.

results_on_new_tab : default 0

[ 0, 1 ]

Open search results on new tab.

image_proxy : default from settings server

[ True, False ]

Proxy image results through SearXNG.

autocomplete : default from settings search

[ google, dbpedia, duckduckgo, mwmbl, startpage, wikipedia, stract, swisscows, qwant ]

Service which completes words as you type.

safesearch : default from settings search

[ 0, 1, 2 ]

Filter search results of engines which support safe search. See if an engine supports safe search in the preferences page of an instance.

theme : default simple

[ simple ]

Theme of instance.

Please note, available themes depend on an instance. It is possible that an instance administrator deleted, created or renamed themes on their instance. See the available options in the preferences page of the instance.

enabled_plugins : optional

List of enabled plugins.

default

Hash_plugin, Self_Information, Tracker_URL_remover, Ahmia_blacklist

values

Hash_plugin, Self_Information, Tracker_URL_remover, Ahmia_blacklist,

Hostnames_plugin, Open_Access_DOI_rewrite, Vim-like_hotkeys, Tor_check_plugin

disabled_plugins: optional

List of disabled plugins.

default

Hostnames_plugin, Open_Access_DOI_rewrite, Vim-like_hotkeys, Tor_check_plugin

values

see values from enabled_plugins

enabled_engines : optional : all engines <searx/engines>

List of enabled engines.

disabled_engines : optional : all engines <searx/engines>

List of disabled engines.