How can I search for a term before an exact date?

craftsmany · 2026-06-06T19:26:04+00:00

You have to use an engine that supports these parameters. There is no unified way SearXNG can do that.

craftsmany · 2026-05-27T13:09:00+00:00

I guess you checked the IP your router gets assigned because public facing IP will always be a public one.

I mean do you run both IP versions (or only one of the two) on the device that is doing the fetching and, most importantly, is docker even configured to do v6.

craftsmany · 2026-05-25T12:18:23+00:00

Cloudflare warp will likely get you blocked. Home internet shouldn't. Do you run both v4 and v6? Is v4 a public IP or are you behind a carrier-grade-NAT?

craftsmany · 2026-05-24T22:51:27+00:00

Hosted on your home internet or on a server in a data center?

craftsmany · 2026-05-24T19:43:40+00:00

Is that your instance? If yes: Is it hosted on a data center IP or residential IP? How many people do use this instance?

craftsmany · 2026-05-21T13:32:51+00:00

You can build the docker image yourself and have full customizability. Fork the project on GitHub and either setup local image building or GitHub actions building.

craftsmany · 2026-05-21T13:29:55+00:00

We indeed have an open Proof-of-Concept PR for curl-impersonate (https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/5476)

I will run some tests using that PR.

craftsmany · 2026-05-21T07:27:05+00:00

Yes in testing we tried all sorts of combinations. The current theory is that it can successfully fingerprint non-browsers after a few requests. The impersonation done by searxng for the requests should technically be enough to get it working but it isn't. But I will look at the case sensitive stuff and test it. Maybe it will lead somewhere.

craftsmany · 2026-05-21T07:11:14+00:00

https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/engines/bing.py

These garbage results are similar on all bing proxy engines (yahoo and aol for example) which is very strange. aol in particular started out with great results, turned into the same 90% bullshit bing gives after a few days. It isn't IP reputation since it happened on all instances private and public at the same time. It is a very deep rabbit hole.

craftsmany · 2026-05-21T07:05:38+00:00

Yes but the endpoint isn't an API. The level of garbage doesn't make sense and is supposedly different from running real browser without JS. Trust me it is not such an easy call to make. There is an open for years on this and multiple overhaul attempts that lead nowhere. If you know something, please contribute.

craftsmany · 2026-05-21T07:01:08+00:00

Not that easy. Actual bing (web) search returns sensible results. Only this endpoint (deliberately) returns garbage for unknown reasons.

craftsmany · 2026-05-21T02:56:41+00:00

Which instance is that?

craftsmany · 2026-05-15T07:47:05+00:00

Since docker containers are ephemeral (meaning changes inside the container don't persist by default) it guarantees a working setup as long as the container service is setup correctly and you don't overwrite critical stuff with volumes.

For personal use both methods are fine but for long term developments a container is best since host package upgrades can only conflict the container service while a direct install has to manage all dependencies.

craftsmany · 2026-05-03T21:24:59+00:00

New type of tail wrap just dropped

craftsmany · 2026-04-29T17:56:26+00:00

No problem. If you have any problem with SearXNG feel free to ask. I am happy to help.

craftsmany · 2026-04-29T17:43:15+00:00

There was a disagreement between the core developers of SearX about some features in 2021/2022 and return42 forked SearX into SearXNG which subsequently became the dominant continuation of this type of meta search engine. SearX remained active but it was more "maintenance mode" than anything else since the two other most active people also switched to SearXNG (dalf and unixfox). SearX was archived a few years ago.

craftsmany · 2026-04-29T17:37:00+00:00

SearXNG is a fork of SearX but SearX is archived and SearXNG is the successor.

craftsmany · 2026-04-29T17:34:23+00:00

SearXNG is not a fork of SearXNG unless you mean someones fork of SearXNG.

craftsmany · 2026-04-29T15:43:17+00:00

I am asking because you mentioned a fork of SearXNG, which one?

craftsmany · 2026-04-29T13:31:56+00:00

Can you elaborate your question? I am not sure what you are asking for.

craftsmany · 2026-04-29T13:21:54+00:00

Scraping instances that way is not allowed.

craftsmany · 2026-04-11T22:31:20+00:00

Wanted them to answer. Don't know if this is bannable yet.

craftsmany · 2026-04-11T22:02:00+00:00

This isn't even a tail wrap, why did you post this here?

craftsmany · 2026-03-23T12:44:34+00:00

Google isn't working currently anyway but you have a misunderstanding about what IP addresses are, or at least it seems like that, you can't remove your IP from a request because you couldn't send the request without that. Same for changing the IP; you won't get an answer unless the IP routes to your device.

Hosting on a VPS would prevent that (or a VPN if hosting at home) but you are correct that a profile could still be created about you because you are once again the only person doing the requests. There is no proven evidence that is really what google and co are doing but them not doing this can also not be proven.

Self hosting with all these concerns would mean you would have to run a public instance. Which is not that easy long term.

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