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Running shell commands to fetch results
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Previously, with searx you could search over the Internet on other people's
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computers. Now it is possible to fetch results from your local machine without
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connecting to any networks from the same graphical user interface.
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Command line engines
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====================
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In :pull:`2128` a new type of engine has been introduced called ``command``.
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This engine lets administrators add engines which run arbitrary shell commands
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and show its output on the web UI of searx.
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When creating and enabling a ``command`` engine on a public searx instance,
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you must be careful to avoid leaking private data. The easiest solution
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is to add tokens to the engine. Thus, only those who have the appropriate token
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can retrieve results from the it.
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The engine base is flexible. Only your imagination can limit the power of this engine. (And
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maybe security concerns.) The following options are available:
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* ``command``: A comma separated list of the elements of the command. A special token {{QUERY}} tells searx where to put the search terms of the user. Example: ``['ls', '-l', '-h', '{{QUERY}}']``
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* ``delimiter``: A dict containing a delimiter char and the "titles" of each element in keys.
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* ``parse_regex``: A dict containing the regular expressions for each result key.
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* ``query_type``: The expected type of user search terms. Possible values: ``path`` and ``enum``. ``path`` checks if the uesr provided path is inside the working directory. If not the query is not executed. ``enum`` is a list of allowed search terms. If the user submits something which is not included in the list, the query returns an error.
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* ``query_enum``: A list containing allowed search terms if ``query_type`` is set to ``enum``.
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* ``working_dir``: The directory where the command has to be executed. Default: ``.``
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* ``result_separator``: The character that separates results. Default: ``\n``
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The example engine below can be used to find files with a specific name in the configured
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working directory.
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.. code:: yaml
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- name: find
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engine: command
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command: ['find', '.', '-name', '{{QUERY}}']
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query_type: path
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shortcut: fnd
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delimiter:
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chars: ' '
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keys: ['line']
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Next steps
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==========
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In the next milestone, support for local search engines and indexers (e.g. Elasticsearch)
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are going to be added. This way, you will be able to query your own databases/indexers.
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Acknowledgement
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===============
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This development was sponsored by `Search and Discovery Fund`_ of `NLnet Foundation`_ .
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.. _Search and Discovery Fund: https://nlnet.nl/discovery
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.. _NLnet Foundation: https://nlnet.nl/
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| Happy hacking.
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| kvch // 2020.09.28 21:26
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admin
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intro-offline
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private-engines
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