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Anybody out there self hosting Searxing? (docs.searxng.org)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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The instances that give the best results seem to also get throttled pretty often on the source search engines, to the point of near uselessness.

Thinking of hosting my own, but the maintenance seems pretty involved according to the docs.

What's your experience been like?

Edit: all right y'all, thanks for the feedback. I'm going to spin up an instance.

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

The amazing thing about it is that with an instance of meilisearch I was able to index all my media libraries/book libraries/game libraries and searching for !home actually sarches within my home lab, which is a huge win for me.

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    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

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