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	The blog article 'Query your local search engines' has been renamed 'Local Search Engines', revised and moved into admin's chapter 'Engine & Settings'. Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
		
			
				
	
	
		
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| ====================
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| Local Search Engines
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| ====================
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| 
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| .. sidebar:: further read
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| 
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|    - `Comparison to alternatives
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|      <https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/comparison_to_alternatives.html>`_
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| 
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| Administrators might find themselves wanting to integrate locally running search
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| engines.  The following ones are supported for now:
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| 
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| * `Elasticsearch`_
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| * `Meilisearch`_
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| * `Solr`_
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| 
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| Each search engine is powerful, capable of full-text search.  All of the engines
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| above are added to ``settings.yml`` just commented out, as you have to
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| ``base_url`` for all them.
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| 
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| Please note that if you are not using HTTPS to access these engines, you have to enable
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| HTTP requests by setting ``enable_http`` to ``True``.
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| 
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| Futhermore, if you do not want to expose these engines on a public instance, you
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| can still add them and limit the access by setting ``tokens`` as described in
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| section :ref:`private engines`.
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| 
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| .. _engine meilisearch:
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| 
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| MeiliSearch
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| ===========
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| 
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| .. sidebar:: info
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| 
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|    - :origin:`meilisearch.py <searx/engines/meilisearch.py>`
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|    - `MeiliSearch <https://www.meilisearch.com>`_
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|    - `MeiliSearch Documentation <https://docs.meilisearch.com/>`_
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|    - `Install MeiliSearch
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|      <https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/getting_started/installation.html>`_
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| 
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| MeiliSearch_ is aimed at individuals and small companies.  It is designed for
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| small-scale (less than 10 million documents) data collections.  E.g. it is great
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| for storing web pages you have visited and searching in the contents later.
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| 
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| The engine supports faceted search, so you can search in a subset of documents
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| of the collection.  Furthermore, you can search in MeiliSearch_ instances that
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| require authentication by setting ``auth_token``.
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| 
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| Here is a simple example to query a Meilisearch instance:
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| 
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| .. code:: yaml
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| 
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|   - name: meilisearch
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|     engine: meilisearch
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|     shortcut: mes
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|     base_url: http://localhost:7700
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|     index: my-index
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|     enable_http: true
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| 
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| 
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| .. _engine elasticsearch:
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| 
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| Elasticsearch
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| =============
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| 
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| .. sidebar:: info
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| 
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|    - :origin:`elasticsearch.py <searx/engines/elasticsearch.py>`
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|    - `Elasticsearch <https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/>`_
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|    - `Elasticsearch Guide
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|      <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html>`_
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|    - `Install Elasticsearch
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|      <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/install-elasticsearch.html>`_
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| 
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| Elasticsearch_ supports numerous ways to query the data it is storing.  At the
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| moment the engine supports the most popular search methods (``query_type``):
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| 
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| - ``match``,
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| - ``simple_query_string``,
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| - ``term`` and
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| - ``terms``.
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| 
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| If none of the methods fit your use case, you can select ``custom`` query type
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| and provide the JSON payload to submit to Elasticsearch in
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| ``custom_query_json``.
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| 
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| The following is an example configuration for an Elasticsearch_ instance with
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| authentication configured to read from ``my-index`` index.
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| 
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| .. code:: yaml
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| 
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|   - name: elasticsearch
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|     shortcut: es
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|     engine: elasticsearch
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|     base_url: http://localhost:9200
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|     username: elastic
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|     password: changeme
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|     index: my-index
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|     query_type: match
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|     # custom_query_json: '{ ... }'
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|     enable_http: true
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| 
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| .. _engine solr:
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| 
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| Solr
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| ====
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| 
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| .. sidebar:: info
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| 
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|    - :origin:`solr.py <searx/engines/solr.py>`
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|    - `Solr <https://solr.apache.org>`_
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|    - `Solr Resources <https://solr.apache.org/resources.html>`_
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|    - `Install Solr <https://solr.apache.org/guide/installing-solr.html>`_
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| 
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| Solr_ is a popular search engine based on Lucene, just like Elasticsearch_.  But
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| instead of searching in indices, you can search in collections.
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| 
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| This is an example configuration for searching in the collection
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| ``my-collection`` and get the results in ascending order.
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| 
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| .. code:: yaml
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| 
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|   - name: solr
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|     engine: solr
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|     shortcut: slr
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|     base_url: http://localhost:8983
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|     collection: my-collection
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|     sort: asc
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|     enable_http: true
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| 
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| 
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| Acknowledgment
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| ==============
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| 
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| This development was sponsored by `Search and Discovery Fund
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| <https://nlnet.nl/discovery>`_ of `NLnet Foundation <https://nlnet.nl/>`_.
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