README
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srchd
10 second pitch: srchd is a privacy-respecting metasearch engine written in Go. Search several search engines at once without switching tabs, and reap the benefits of (occasionally) better results.
Note: The canonical repository is located at https://git.sr.ht/~cmcevoy/srchd. A mirror exists on GitHub.
Rationale
Search engines of today are a far cry from what they used to be. I find it hard at times to find exactly what I am looking for, and often I would jump across two or three different search engines to find what I am looking for. This is no fun.
Naturally, I became a user of SearxNG for a period of time, however I found it hard to run on my memory constrained servers and configuration is complicated. Though, I can vouch for its usefulness, it's a great piece of software.
I set out to replace SearxNG with something a bit lighter (and to satisfy my NIH syndrome) and srchd is the result. I started using it as my primary search engine about two weeks after I started working on it and haven't looked back.
Running
Get up and going in under 30 seconds (provided your machine is moderately fast):
Ensure you have Go installed and run go run git.sr.ht/~cmcevoy/srchd@latest.
From this repository, you can use the usual Go commands to build and run binaries.
Simply use go build . to build a binary that holds all of the resources it needs to run within itself, or go run . to run the code right out of this repository.
An example configuration file can be found at ./docs/config.yaml.example and documentation at ./docs/config.md.
Search engine support
srchd is a young project and as such doesn't have a lot of support.
- Bing (likely broken, disabled by default)
- Brave
- DuckDuckGo
- Marginalia Search (not through API)
- Mediawiki (e.g. Wikipedia, requires configuration)
- Yahoo
- Yandex (experimental, off by default)
- wiby.me (native API)
Documentation
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There is no documentation for this package.
Source Files
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Directories
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internal
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brotlihack
Package brotlihack implements a wrapper to workaround a non-fatal error returned by the Brotli package.
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Package brotlihack implements a wrapper to workaround a non-fatal error returned by the Brotli package. |
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engtest
Package engtest includes a number of helpers for testing search engines.
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Package engtest includes a number of helpers for testing search engines. |
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engtest/tool
command
git.sr.ht/~cmcevoy/srchd/internal/engtest/tool is a very rudimentary tool to extract requests and responses to search engines from their test files.
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git.sr.ht/~cmcevoy/srchd/internal/engtest/tool is a very rudimentary tool to extract requests and responses to search engines from their test files. |
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Package search implements an interface for searching search engines.
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Package search implements an interface for searching search engines. |