Yacy¶
YaCy is a free distributed search engine, built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
API: Dev:APIyacysearch
Releases:
Configuration¶
The engine has the following (additional) settings:
The base_url
has to be set in the engine named yacy and is used by
all yacy engines.
- name: yacy
engine: yacy
categories: general
search_type: text
shortcut: ya
base_url:
- https://yacy.searchlab.eu
- https://search.lomig.me
- https://yacy.ecosys.eu
- https://search.webproject.link
- name: yacy images
engine: yacy
categories: images
search_type: image
shortcut: yai
disabled: true
Implementations¶
- searx.engines.yacy.base_url: list | str = 'https://yacy.searchlab.eu'¶
The value is an URL or a list of URLs. In the latter case instance will be selected randomly.
- searx.engines.yacy.http_digest_auth_pass = ''¶
HTTP digest password for the local YACY instance
- searx.engines.yacy.http_digest_auth_user = ''¶
HTTP digest user for the local YACY instance
- searx.engines.yacy.search_mode = 'global'¶
Yacy search mode
global
orlocal
. By default, Yacy operates inglobal
mode.global
Peer-to-Peer search
local
Privacy or Stealth mode, restricts the search to local yacy instance.
- searx.engines.yacy.search_type = 'text'¶
One of
text
,image
/ The search-typesapp
,audio
andvideo
are not yet implemented (Pull-Requests are welcome).