searxng/searxng
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
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: 1969
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 11
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
36135 stars · 3287 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
SearXNG is a free, open-source internet metasearch engine that aggregates results from many search services and databases (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Qwant, and dozens more) without tracking or profiling users. It is a self-hostable Python web application with a JSON API, pluggable engine architecture, and extensive deployment options including Docker, uWSGI, and Granian.
Use cases
- self-host a private search engine that doesn't track me
- aggregate search results from Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo in one place
- get a JSON search API for my app without paying for search APIs
- replace Google search to avoid being profiled
- run a privacy-respecting search instance for my family or organization
- add web search results to an LLM or RAG pipeline
- search across specialized sources like arXiv, PubMed, and GitHub code
When to choose
- you want a private, self-hosted metasearch engine with no user tracking
- you need a free JSON search API by running your own instance
- you want to combine results from many search engines and specialized sources
- you need a customizable search frontend with plugins and per-engine configuration
When to avoid
- you need a hosted, zero-maintenance search solution
- you want a crawler/indexer that builds its own search index (SearXNG only aggregates)
- you need a single-engine search with deep integration into one provider's features
- you cannot run a server and don't want to rely on public instances
Facets
application · maturity active
search-engine http-server web-framework self-hosted proxy privacy self-hosted web-development censorship-circumvention python self-hosted metasearch privacy-respecting no-tracking agpl search-aggregator degoogle customizable-engines json-api search docker linux web-server
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/searxng/searxng · fetched 2026-08-28 · 6a78fb798e89
- homepage: https://docs.searxng.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 78aee0b70d49
- site_page: https://docs.searxng.org/user/about.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 50c993be97e9
- site_page: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 51e77a3b5a25
- site_page: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2af59eb4648a
- site_page: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-docker.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 44342c4adfb6
- site_page: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-scripts.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · f03a7bde6f52
- site_page: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-searxng.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3b3eff89b224
- site_page: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-granian.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3fbe3f577f02
- site_page: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-uwsgi.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b9c2fe93fe0
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| searxng/searxng | main | 77 |
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