Apps / Network
SearXNG
Search that does not watch you
A metasearch engine: it queries Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia and dozens of others on your behalf and merges the results, without cookies, tracking or a profile. Set it as your browser's default and every search leaves from this box instead of from you.
CategoryNetwork
Memory~200MB
Module
searxngInstalling it
Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install searxngWhere to open it
| Service | Port | First login |
|---|---|---|
| SearXNG | :8088 | No account of any kind — it opens straight into the search box. |
Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.
Good to know
- Add it to Firefox or Chrome as a search engine with the URL http://<this box>:8088/search?q=%s
- A brand new instance often gets NO RESULTS at first, and that is the engines, not this. DuckDuckGo and Brave answer an unfamiliar instance with a CAPTCHA — seen on a fresh install here — and SearXNG reports it honestly rather than pretending. It settles as the instance is used; meanwhile turn the sulking engines off in Preferences and lean on the ones that answer
- Check which engine failed and why under Preferences then Engines, or in the log: homebox logs searxng
- The secret key is generated at install and signs the preference cookies; it is not a login
- There is no account and no history. Settings are a cookie in your own browser, so they do not follow you to another device