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Self hosted search options (self.homelab)

submitted 1 day ago by root to c/[email protected]

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For years, I have been using Whoogle for my self-hosted searches. It's been great, but recently there were some upstream changes that seem to have broken it.

I'm guessing that SearXng will soon follow (based on the assumption that they too are using the JS free results Google used to provide).

Does anyone have any self-hosted search options that still work? I hear Kagi is good for paid/ non-self hosted options, but just curious what you all are using.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just installed SearXNG the other day and have been loving my little private instance.

[–] root 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you using the Docker image or the stand alone? Pretty straight forward setup?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Docker and very straightforward. I would argue it's easier to set up than using their installation script.

[–] root 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Gave it a shot, it's been working pretty well so far. Only issue is that Firefox seems to want to use https://localhost instead of the IP address when I make it a default search engine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, to fix that I've had to employ the Redirector add-on. Slightly annoying but no big deal.

[–] root 1 points 6 hours ago

Just a heads up that I found another way to get this working. Have a good weekend!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it lightweight?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Very.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Then I’ll try it too. I’ve been using distroot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Lemme know how you get on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

There was an update tonight to patch it using another user agent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I use SearcXNG. It can use Google on the backend, but in default configuration it uses several different backends. It can also use paid backends if you set it up. Basically if it has a search api, SearXNG can hook into it with the right configuration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Is Yacy still a thing?