Yacy

YaCy is a free distributed search engine, built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

API: Dev:APIyacysearch

Releases:

• https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/tags

• https://download.yacy.net/

Configuration

The engine has the following (additional) settings:

• http_digest_auth_user

• http_digest_auth_pass

• search_mode

• search_type

The base_url has to be set in the engine named yacy and is used by all yacy engines (unless an individual value for base_url is configured for the engine).

- 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.http_digest_auth_user = ''

HTTP digest user for the local YACY instance

searx.engines.yacy.http_digest_auth_pass = ''

HTTP digest password for the local YACY instance

searx.engines.yacy.search_mode = 'global'

Yacy search mode global or local. By default, Yacy operates in global 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-types app, audio and video are not yet implemented (Pull-Requests are welcome).

searx.engines.yacy.base_url: list[str] | str | None = None

The value is an URL or a list of URLs. In the latter case instance will be selected randomly.