# searx/searx

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Repository: https://github.com/searx/searx
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/searx
Homepage: https://hister.org/
Language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: search, metasearch, metasearch-engine, search-engine, python
Last push: 2026-05-14T10:02:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4705, "days_push": 111, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 13540, forks 1690 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:03.486718+00:00)

## What it is
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 It is self-hostable under the AGPL-3.0 license, but the project is officially no longer maintained as its author has moved on to a new tool called Hister.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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: search-engine, http-server, web-framework, privacy
- domain: privacy, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: metasearch, agpl, self-hosted-search, no-tracking, discontinued, successor-hister, search, linux, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- searx/searx (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:03.486718+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:13:13.971348+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/searx/searx (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:03.486718+00:00, sha 57b2372c9d02)
  - homepage: https://hister.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:08:08.333479+00:00, sha 5dafc65e0624)
  - site_page: https://hister.org/docs/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T08:08:08.344523+00:00, sha ce91506ab076)
  - site_page: https://hister.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:08:08.342586+00:00, sha e33053a44068)
  - site_page: https://hister.org/docs/query-language (fetched 2026-08-29T08:08:08.346307+00:00, sha 76b6b83e69f3)
  - site_page: https://hister.org/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T08:08:08.348216+00:00, sha 2be4071af0de)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.