diff --git a/searx/engines/petal_images.py b/searx/engines/petal_images.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 88853c1bd..000000000
--- a/searx/engines/petal_images.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-"""Petalsearch Images
-
-"""
-
-from json import loads
-from urllib.parse import urlencode
-from datetime import datetime
-
-from lxml import html
-
-from searx.utils import extract_text
-
-about = {
-    "website": 'https://petalsearch.com/',
-    "wikidata_id": 'Q104399280',
-    "official_api_documentation": False,
-    "use_official_api": False,
-    "require_api_key": False,
-    "results": 'JSON',
-}
-
-categories = ['images']
-paging = True
-time_range_support = False
-
-safesearch = True
-safesearch_table = {0: 'off', 1: 'moderate', 2: 'on'}
-
-base_url = 'https://petalsearch.com/'
-search_string = 'search?{query}&channel=image&ps=50&pn={page}&region={lang}&ss_mode={safesearch}&ss_type=normal'
-
-
-def request(query, params):
-
-    search_path = search_string.format(
-        query=urlencode({'query': query}),
-        page=params['pageno'],
-        lang=params['language'].lower(),
-        safesearch=safesearch_table[params['safesearch']],
-    )
-
-    params['url'] = base_url + search_path
-
-    return params
-
-
-def response(resp):
-    results = []
-
-    tree = html.fromstring(resp.text)
-    root = tree.findall('.//script[3]')
-
-    # Convert list to JSON
-    json_content = extract_text(root)
-
-    # Manipulate with JSON
-    data = loads(json_content)
-
-    for result in data['newImages']:
-        url = result['url']
-        title = result['title']
-        thumbnail_src = result['image']
-
-        pic_dict = result.get('extrainfo')
-
-        date_from_api = pic_dict.get('publish_time')
-        width = pic_dict.get('width')
-        height = pic_dict.get('height')
-        img_src = pic_dict.get('real_url')
-
-        # Continue if img_src is missing
-        if img_src is None or '':
-            continue
-
-        # Get and convert published date
-        if date_from_api is not None:
-            publishedDate = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(date_from_api))
-
-        # Append results
-        results.append(
-            {
-                'template': 'images.html',
-                'url': url,
-                'title': title,
-                'img_src': img_src,
-                'thumbnail_src': thumbnail_src,
-                'width': width,
-                'height': height,
-                'publishedDate': publishedDate,
-            }
-        )
-
-    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 04ec3e466..2ac29351d 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -1845,33 +1845,6 @@ engines:
     categories: news
     brave_category: news
 
-  - name: petalsearch
-    shortcut: pts
-    engine: xpath
-    paging: true
-    search_url: https://petalsearch.com/search?query={query}&pn={pageno}
-    url_xpath: //div[@class='card-source']
-    title_xpath: //div[@class='title-name']
-    content_xpath: //div[@class='webpage-text']
-    first_page_num: 1
-    disabled: true
-    headers:
-      User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0;) \
-        AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) \
-        Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot)
-    about:
-      website: https://petalsearch.com/
-      wikidata_id: Q104399280
-      use_official_api: false
-      require_api_key: false
-      results: HTML
-
-  - name: petalsearch images
-    engine: petal_images
-    shortcut: ptsi
-    disabled: true
-    timeout: 3.0
-
   - name: lib.rs
     shortcut: lrs
     engine: xpath