Plugins

The built-in plugins can be activated or deactivated via the settings (enabled_plugins: (internal)) and external plugins can be integrated into SearXNG (plugins: (external)).

enabled_plugins: (internal)

In List of plugins you find a complete list of all plugins, the default configuration looks like:

enabled_plugins:
  - 'Basic Calculator'
  - 'Hash plugin'
  - 'Self Information'
  - 'Tracker URL remover'
  - 'Unit converter plugin'
  - 'Ahmia blacklist'

plugins: (external)

SearXNG supports external plugins / there is no need to install one, SearXNG runs out of the box. But to demonstrate; in the example below we install the SearXNG plugins from The Green Web Foundation [ref]:

$ sudo utils/searxng.sh instance cmd bash -c
(searxng-pyenv)$ pip install git+https://github.com/return42/tgwf-searx-plugins

In the settings.yml activate the plugins: section and add module only_show_green_results from tgwf-searx-plugins.

plugins:
  - only_show_green_results
  # - mypackage.mymodule.MyPlugin
  # - mypackage.mymodule.MyOtherPlugin

Hint

only_show_green_results is an old plugin that was still implemented in the old style. There is a legacy treatment for backward compatibility, but new plugins should be implemented as a searx.plugins.Plugin class.