diff --git a/searx/engines/seedpeer.py b/searx/engines/seedpeer.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 39916da6e..000000000
--- a/searx/engines/seedpeer.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-#  Seedpeer (Videos, Music, Files)
-#
-# @website     https://seedpeer.me
-# @provide-api no (nothing found)
-#
-# @using-api   no
-# @results     HTML (using search portal)
-# @stable      yes (HTML can change)
-# @parse       url, title, content, seed, leech, magnetlink
-
-from lxml import html
-from json import loads
-from operator import itemgetter
-from urllib.parse import quote, urljoin
-from searx.utils import extract_text
-
-
-url = 'https://seedpeer.me/'
-search_url = url + 'search/{search_term}?page={page_no}'
-torrent_file_url = url + 'torrent/{torrent_hash}'
-
-# specific xpath variables
-script_xpath = '//script[@type="text/javascript"][not(@src)]'
-torrent_xpath = '(//table)[2]/tbody/tr'
-link_xpath = '(./td)[1]/a/@href'
-age_xpath = '(./td)[2]'
-size_xpath = '(./td)[3]'
-
-
-# do search-request
-def request(query, params):
-    params['url'] = search_url.format(search_term=quote(query),
-                                      page_no=params['pageno'])
-    return params
-
-
-# get response from search-request
-def response(resp):
-    results = []
-    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
-    result_rows = dom.xpath(torrent_xpath)
-
-    try:
-        script_element = dom.xpath(script_xpath)[0]
-        json_string = script_element.text[script_element.text.find('{'):]
-        torrents_json = loads(json_string)
-    except:
-        return []
-
-    # parse results
-    for torrent_row, torrent_json in zip(result_rows, torrents_json['data']['list']):
-        title = torrent_json['name']
-        seed = int(torrent_json['seeds'])
-        leech = int(torrent_json['peers'])
-        size = int(torrent_json['size'])
-        torrent_hash = torrent_json['hash']
-
-        torrentfile = torrent_file_url.format(torrent_hash=torrent_hash)
-        magnetlink = 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:{}'.format(torrent_hash)
-
-        age = extract_text(torrent_row.xpath(age_xpath))
-        link = torrent_row.xpath(link_xpath)[0]
-
-        href = urljoin(url, link)
-
-        # append result
-        results.append({'url': href,
-                        'title': title,
-                        'content': age,
-                        'seed': seed,
-                        'leech': leech,
-                        'filesize': size,
-                        'torrentfile': torrentfile,
-                        'magnetlink': magnetlink,
-                        'template': 'torrent.html'})
-
-    # return results sorted by seeder
-    return sorted(results, key=itemgetter('seed'), reverse=True)
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index f68770cda..412d0fd1f 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -967,12 +967,6 @@ engines:
     page_size : 10
     disabled : True
 
-  - name : seedpeer
-    shortcut : speu
-    engine : seedpeer
-    categories: files, music, videos
-
-
   - name : naver
     shortcut: nvr
     engine: xpath