searx-tools

Searx helper tools.
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commit ebc1fd9d7883f9845328ccd934b6648c6ef54d95
parent fd99edff996f12e0bfeba64f4d11490c57b43629
Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
Date:   Sat, 13 May 2017 10:45:56 +0200

TODO, updating searx-instances and justify.

Diffstat:
README.md | 22++++++++++++++--------
TODO.md | 5+++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ # Searx Tools -The searx tools help you to maintain a privacy-aware search in the web. +The searx tools help you to maintain a privacy‐aware search in the web. -Searx[0] is mainly hosted at searx.me, which creates a burden for the hobby -developers of this project. The goal is to decentralize. Your first goal -should be to setup your own searx instance[1]. But, if your instance is -working, publish it. If you are the only user of the searx instance it is easy -to track you down. The privacy gain of searx is to have many users and hide -yourself behind the flare of common search queries to all kind of searxh -websites. +Searx[0] is mainly hosted at searx.me, which creates a burden for the +hobby developers of this project. The goal is to decentralize. Your +first goal should be to setup your own searx instance[1]. But, if your +instance is working, publish it. If you are the only user of the searx +instance it is easy to track you down. The privacy gain of searx is to +have many users and hide yourself behind the flare of common search +queries to all kind of searxh websites. The searx tools help you to maintain this. @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ Plumb[2] the search for some query: % searx where is my house? +## Updating the .searc-instances file + +You can use a cron job for this. Beware that as of writing (2017‐05‐13), +the instances website is really slow, so I decided to only download the +working instances on demand. + ## Replacing plumb[2] Open the file »searx« and change »plumb« to for example »xdg-open«. diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# TODO + +* retrieve the .onion URIs for the online instances and use them in case we + have some tor proxy set +