searx/searx
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
60/100
- Activity 82
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4705
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 111
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
13540 stars · 1690 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Searx is a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine that aggregates results from multiple third-party search engines without tracking users. It is self-hostable under the AGPL-3.0 license, but the project is officially no longer maintained as its author has moved on to a new tool called Hister.
Use cases
- run a private search engine that doesn't track me
- self-host a metasearch engine for my family or team
- aggregate results from Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo without being profiled
- add a privacy-respecting search endpoint to my browser
- host a search instance that doesn't log user queries
- customize and hack on an open-source search engine
When to choose
- you need a self-hosted metasearch proxy that strips identifying data before querying upstream engines
- you want to run a private search instance for personal or group use
- you want a hackable Python codebase to customize search behavior
When to avoid
- starting a new deployment today, since the project is explicitly unmaintained - consider searxng or the author's successor Hister instead
- you need guaranteed upstream fixes for broken engine scrapers
- you need a fully local search index that doesn't depend on third-party engines
- you require commercial support or long-term security maintenance
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
search-engine http-server web-framework privacy privacy self-hosted web-development python self-hosted metasearch agpl self-hosted-search no-tracking discontinued successor-hister search linux web-server docker
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/searx/searx · fetched 2026-08-28 · 57b2372c9d02
- homepage: https://hister.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5dafc65e0624
- site_page: https://hister.org/docs/quickstart · fetched 2026-08-29 · ce91506ab076
- site_page: https://hister.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · e33053a44068
- site_page: https://hister.org/docs/query-language · fetched 2026-08-29 · 76b6b83e69f3
- site_page: https://hister.org/docs/intro · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2be4071af0de
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| searx/searx | main | 60 |
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