SearXNG
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.
Packages
sudo -H pacman -S --noconfirm \ python python-pip python-lxml python-babel \ uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python \ git base-devel libxml2
AUR
If you would like to use AUR, you can do the following:
pikaur -S searxng-git
systemctl enable --now uwsgi@searxng.service
You no longer need to follow the guide below, just go to:
Create User
sudo -H useradd --shell /bin/bash --system \ --home-dir "/usr/local/searxng" \ --comment 'Privacy-respecting metasearch engine' \ searxng sudo -H mkdir "/usr/local/searxng" sudo -H chown -R "searxng:searxng" "/usr/local/searxng"
SearXNG Dependencies (searxng user/terminal)
sudo -H -u searxng -i git clone "https://github.com/searxng/searxng" \ "/usr/local/searxng/searxng-src"
Create Virtual Environment (searxng user/terminal)
sudo -H -u searxng -i python3 -m venv "/usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv" echo ". /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/activate" \ >> "/usr/local/searxng/.profile"
Start another Terminal (update)
pip install -U pip pip install -U setuptools pip install -U wheel pip install -U pyyaml
Install SearXNG into Virtual Environment (back to searxng user/terminal)
sudo -H -u searxng -i cd "/usr/local/searxng/searxng-src" pip install -e .
Configuration
sudo -H mkdir -p "/etc/searxng" sudo -H cp "/usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml" \ "/etc/searxng/settings.yml"