Yacy

YaCy is a free distributed search engine, built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

API: Dev:APIyacysearch

Releases:

• https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/tags

• https://download.yacy.net/

Configuration

The engine has the following (additional) settings:

- name: yacy
  engine: yacy
  shortcut: ya
  base_url: http://localhost:8090
  # Yacy search mode. 'global' or 'local'.
  search_mode: 'global'
  number_of_results: 5
  http_digest_auth_user: ""
  http_digest_auth_pass: ""

Implementations

searx.engines.yacy.search_mode = 'global'

Yacy search mode global or local. By default, Yacy operates in global mode.

global

Peer-to-Peer search

local

Privacy or Stealth mode, restricts the search to local yacy instance.