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-Limit access to your searx engines
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-==================================
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-Administrators might find themselves wanting to limit access to some of the
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-enabled engines on their instances. It might be because they do not want to
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-expose some private information through an offline engine. Or they
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-would rather share engines only with their trusted friends or colleagues.
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-
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-.. _private engines:
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-Private engines
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-===============
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-To solve this issue private engines were introduced in :pull-searx:`1823`.
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-A new option was added to engines named `tokens`. It expects a list
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-of strings. If the user making a request presents one of the tokens
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-of an engine, they can access information about the engine
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-and make search requests.
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-Example configuration to restrict access to the Arch Linux Wiki engine:
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-.. code:: yaml
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- - name : arch linux wiki
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- engine : archlinux
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- shortcut : al
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- tokens : [ 'my-secret-token' ]
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-Unless a user has configured the right token, the engine is going
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-to be hidden from him/her. It is not going to be included in the
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-list of engines on the Preferences page and in the output of
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-`/config` REST API call.
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-Tokens can be added to one's configuration on the Preferences page
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-under "Engine tokens". The input expects a comma separated list of
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-strings.
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-The distribution of the tokens from the administrator to the users
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-is not carved in stone. As providing access to such engines
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-implies that the admin knows and trusts the user, we do not see
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-necessary to come up with a strict process. Instead,
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-we would like to add guidelines to the documentation of the feature.
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-
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-Next steps
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-==========
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-Now that searx has support for both offline engines and private engines,
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-it is possible to add concrete engines which benefit from these features.
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-For example engines which search on the local host running the instance.
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-Be it searching your file system or querying a private database. Be creative
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-and come up with new solutions which fit your use case.
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-Acknowledgement
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-===============
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-This development was sponsored by `Search and Discovery Fund`_ of `NLnet Foundation`_ .
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-.. _Search and Discovery Fund: https://nlnet.nl/discovery
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-.. _NLnet Foundation: https://nlnet.nl/
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-| Happy hacking.
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-| kvch // 2020.02.28 22:26
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