# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later # lint: pylint # pyright: basic """Some bot protection / rate limitation To monitore rate limits and protect privacy the IP addresses are getting stored with a hash so the limiter plugin knows who to block. A redis database is needed to store the hash values. Enable the plugin in ``settings.yml``: - ``server.limiter: true`` - ``redis.url: ...`` check the value, see :ref:`settings redis` """ import hmac import re from flask import request from searx.shared import redisdb name = "Request limiter" description = "Limit the number of request" default_on = False preference_section = 'service' c_burst_limit = 15 c_10min_limit = 150 re_bot = re.compile( r'(' + r'[Cc][Uu][Rr][Ll]|[wW]get|Scrapy|splash|JavaFX|FeedFetcher|python-requests|Go-http-client|Java|Jakarta|okhttp' + r'|HttpClient|Jersey|Python|libwww-perl|Ruby|SynHttpClient|UniversalFeedParser|Googlebot|GoogleImageProxy' + r'|bingbot|Baiduspider|yacybot|YandexMobileBot|YandexBot|Yahoo! Slurp|MJ12bot|AhrefsBot|archive.org_bot|msnbot' + r'|MJ12bot|SeznamBot|linkdexbot|Netvibes|SMTBot|zgrab|James BOT|Sogou|Abonti|Pixray|Spinn3r|SemrushBot|Exabot' + r'|ZmEu|BLEXBot|bitlybot' + r')' ) if "logger" not in locals(): import logging logger = logging.getLogger("searx.plugins.limiter") def cdn_reported_ip(headers: dict) -> str: # some commonly used CDNs: cdn_keys = [ "CF-Connecting-IP", # Cloudflare "Fastly-Client-IP", # Fastly "True-Client-IP", # Akamai "ar-real-ip", # ArvanCloud ] for key in cdn_keys: if (v := headers.get(key)): return v return "" def is_accepted_request(inc_get_counter) -> bool: # pylint: disable=too-many-return-statements user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '') client_ip = request.headers.get('X-Forwarded-For', '') # uncomment below if you want to use the CDN reported client ip: # client_ip = cdn_reported_ip(request.headers) if request.path == '/image_proxy': if re_bot.match(user_agent): logger.warning(f"reject [{client_ip}]: client may be a bot described by UA=\"{user_agent}\"") return False return True if request.path == '/search': c_burst = inc_get_counter(interval=20, keys=[b'IP limit, burst', client_ip]) c_10min = inc_get_counter(interval=600, keys=[b'IP limit, 10 minutes', client_ip]) if c_burst > c_burst_limit or c_10min > c_10min_limit: logger.warning(f"reject [{client_ip}]: c_burst({c_burst})>{c_burst_limit} or c_10min({c_10min})>{c_10min_limit}") return False if re_bot.match(user_agent): logger.warning(f"reject [{client_ip}]: client may be a bot described by UA=\"{user_agent}\"") return False if request.headers.get('Accept-Language', '').strip(): logger.warning(f"reject [{client_ip}]: empty Accept-Language") return False # If SearXNG is behind Cloudflare, all requests will get 429 because # Cloudflare uses "Connection: close" by default. # if request.headers.get('Connection') == 'close': # return False # "Accept-Encoding: gzip" will result in 429 because 'deflate' is not in accept_encoding_list... # accept_encoding_list = [l.strip() for l in request.headers.get('Accept-Encoding', '').split(',')] # if 'gzip' not in accept_encoding_list or 'deflate' not in accept_encoding_list: # return False if 'text/html' not in request.accept_mimetypes: logger.warning(f"reject [{client_ip}]: non-html request to /search") return False # IDK but maybe api limit should based on path not format? # if request.args.get('format', 'html') != 'html': # c = inc_get_counter(interval=3600, keys=[b'API limit', client_ip]) # if c > 4: # return False return True def create_inc_get_counter(redis_client, secret_key_bytes): lua_script = """ local slidingWindow = KEYS[1] local key = KEYS[2] local now = tonumber(redis.call('TIME')[1]) local id = redis.call('INCR', 'counter') if (id > 2^46) then redis.call('SET', 'count', 0) end redis.call('ZREMRANGEBYSCORE', key, 0, now - slidingWindow) redis.call('ZADD', key, now, id) local result = redis.call('ZCOUNT', key, 0, now+1) redis.call('EXPIRE', key, slidingWindow) return result """ script_sha = redis_client.script_load(lua_script) def inc_get_counter(interval, keys): m = hmac.new(secret_key_bytes, digestmod='sha256') for k in keys: m.update(bytes(str(k), encoding='utf-8') or b'') m.update(b"\0") key = m.digest() return redis_client.evalsha(script_sha, 2, interval, key) return inc_get_counter def create_pre_request(get_aggregation_count): def pre_request(): if not is_accepted_request(get_aggregation_count): return '', 429 return None return pre_request def init(app, settings): if not settings['server']['limiter']: return False logger.debug("init limiter DB") # pylint: disable=undefined-variable if not redisdb.init(): logger.error("init limiter DB failed!!!") # pylint: disable=undefined-variable return False redis_client = redisdb.client() secret_key_bytes = bytes(settings['server']['secret_key'], encoding='utf-8') inc_get_counter = create_inc_get_counter(redis_client, secret_key_bytes) app.before_request(create_pre_request(inc_get_counter)) return True