Searx

Searx is a free metasearch engine.

Setup

Docker

The official container and documentation was made by searx.

Volumes

Set the following volumes with the -v tag.

Volume-Name	Container mount	Description
`searx_etc`	`/etc/searx`	storage for etc
`searx_log`	`/var/log/uwsgi`	storage for logs

Ports

Set the following ports with the -p tag.

Container Port	Recommended outside port	Protocol	Description
`8080`	`8080`	TCP	WebUI

Rebuild

#!/bin/sh
docker stop searx
docker rm searx
docker pull searx/searx
docker run --name searx \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    -v searx_etc:/etc/searx \
    -v searx_log:/var/log/uwsgi \
    -p 8080:8080 \
    -d searx/searx

Adding to Firefox

Add Searx as a new search engine for firefox and set it as main search for the address bar as described in the Firefox article. Follow the instructions by the addon and put searx with <url to searx instance>/search?q=%s as search string.

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