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Request

Hi,

I discovered the Meta-Search engine https://searx.me and I find it very powerful and versatile, I'd like to know if it would be possible to make this script work with the searx.* search engine ?

It's open source on Github: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

Best Regards ! :)

Hmm, maybe partially.

I ran some test searches on Searx.me:

• site:wikipedia.org works: all results are from wikipedia.org
• -site:wikipedia.org partially works, but I still get Wikipedia results from Bing; there may also be other source sites that ignore -site: but I didn't test in detail

The site doesn't use the tag for the URL, which is where the script attaches on Google results. Searx.me doesn't do anything special to distinguish the URL (just fades the text). Some code changes would be needed to deal with that, and there would be more risk of error.

This userscript currently requires the query to be in the address bar, so you would need to go into Searx.me Preferences and switch to the GET method instead of using POST. POST is the default, since it's better for privacy, but if you don't insist on privacy, the script might be able to work.

So probably it could be done, but I don't think I will be working on it right away.

I really like if you could work on it since it's really a great meta-search engine, even if you were just doing a beta version first with "no warranty" of working 100%

Thanks for your quick answer ! :smiley: