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type: howto
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status: current
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# Tuning the SearXNG instance
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The client treats HTTP 200 + `results: []` as **throttled**, not as absence.
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Fix the cause on the instance you point `BRAIN_SEARCH_URL` at, or use the
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optional Compose profile in this repo.
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## Optional Compose profile
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Do not start this on a host that already runs SearXNG — set `BRAIN_SEARCH_URL`
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instead (D3).
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```bash
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SEARXNG_SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 32) docker compose --profile searxng up -d
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```
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Pinned image: `docker.io/searxng/searxng:2026.8.10-0a118066d`.
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Settings: `deploy/searxng/settings.yml` + `limiter.toml` (RFC1918 `pass_ip`,
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short `suspended_times`, `formats: [html, json]`). No secrets in git. Bind is
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`127.0.0.1:8888`.
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## Why the client classifies empty as throttled
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A default engine set under load answers HTTP 200 with `results: []` (sometimes
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with empty `unresponsive_engines`). That is indistinguishable from "nothing
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found" unless the client refuses to call it absence.
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## Instance-side levers
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1. **Allow the callers through the limiter** (`limiter.toml` `pass_ip`). The
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Compose file uses RFC1918 only.
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2. **Shorten suspensions** (`settings.yml` `search.suspended_times`) so a
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CAPTCHA does not last a day.
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3. **More than one engine in `general`.** One live engine is a single point of
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failure. This repo enables bing, google, duckduckgo, wikipedia.
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4. **Keep the JSON API on.** `formats: [html, json]` must stay.
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## Verifying
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```bash
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for i in $(seq 10); do
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bin/web/search.go "test $i" -n 1 --refresh --json | yq -r '.status'
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done
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```
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Ten lines of `ok` means the instance is healthy. Any `throttled` means say
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nothing about whether the subject exists.
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