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Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?
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Hey, I know you got a ton of replies but yeah, been using searXNG with a custom theme made by me and it's basically identical to google (including the feeling lucky part lol)
Used it for months and it's awesome, haven't missed google at all.
The amazing thing about it is that with an instance of
meilisearchI was able to index all my media libraries/book libraries/game libraries and searching for!home <query>actually sarches within my home lab, which is a huge win for me.Hope this helps give you an idea of how powerful this can be <3
I'm intrigued. I've always wanted to point my search engine to my ebook library and be able to search them for data. Scrape my library as it were. I've also wanted to change the Searxng log as well, to personalize it.
Nice!
The only drawback I have had for heavily customising it is that it's now not compatible with the latest versions, unfortunately they've re-structured their codebase and I frankly don't have the time to re-do all my hard work, so I've been running a very old (but extremely stable) version of it lol
how do you theme it ive tried to add my own logo on the homepage but its always scaled wrong.
edit: spelling