How to host a personal meta-search engine using docker

searxng-meta-search-engine.md

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled as we are hosting it.

This meta search can be hosted on cloud or on raspberrypi or simple VM Instances as well using docker

1. Install docker and docker-compose

For ubuntu, mint and debian users

sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker.io
sudo apt install docker-compose

or

sudo dnf install docker
sudo dnf install docker-compose

For arch users

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S docker
sudo pacman -S docker-compose

2. After Installing the docker and docker compose as well

mkdir searchengine
cd searchengine
export PORT=8080
docker pull searxng/searxng
docker run --rm \
            -d -p ${PORT}:8080 \
            -v "${PWD}/searxng:/etc/searxng" \
            -e "BASE_URL=http://localhost:$PORT/" \
            -e "INSTANCE_NAME=my-instance" \
            searxng/searxng

3. Open your web browser and visit the URL and modify the settings as required:

http://localhost:8080

Or just want to use Online Searxng Instances hosted by other people: https://searx.space/

I personally don't recommend it.