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  <section id="administration-api">
<span id="adminapi"></span><h1>Administration API<a class="headerlink" href="#administration-api" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<section id="get-configuration-data">
<h2>Get configuration data<a class="headerlink" href="#get-configuration-data" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<div class="highlight-http notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">GET</span> <span class="nn">/config</span>  <span class="kr">HTTP</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="m">1.1</span>
</pre></div>
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<section id="sample-response">
<h3>Sample response<a class="headerlink" href="#sample-response" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-json notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;autocomplete&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;categories&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="s2">&quot;map&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="s2">&quot;it&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="s2">&quot;images&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;default_locale&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;default_theme&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;simple&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;engines&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;categories&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span>
<span class="w">        </span><span class="s2">&quot;map&quot;</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;enabled&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;name&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;openstreetmap&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;shortcut&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;osm&quot;</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;categories&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span>
<span class="w">        </span><span class="s2">&quot;it&quot;</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;enabled&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;name&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;arch linux wiki&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;shortcut&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;al&quot;</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;categories&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span>
<span class="w">        </span><span class="s2">&quot;images&quot;</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;enabled&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;name&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;google images&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;shortcut&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;goi&quot;</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;categories&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span>
<span class="w">        </span><span class="s2">&quot;it&quot;</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;enabled&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">false</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;name&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;bitbucket&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;shortcut&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;bb&quot;</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;instance_name&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;SearXNG&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;locales&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="nt">&quot;de&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;Deutsch (German)&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="nt">&quot;en&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;English&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="nt">&quot;eo&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;Esperanto (Esperanto)&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;plugins&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;enabled&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">&quot;name&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;HTTPS rewrite&quot;</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&quot;safe_search&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
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<section id="embed-search-bar">
<h2>Embed search bar<a class="headerlink" href="#embed-search-bar" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>The search bar can be embedded into websites.  Just paste the example into the
HTML of the site.  URL of the SearXNG instance and values are customizable.</p>
<div class="highlight-html notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">form</span> <span class="na">method</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;post&quot;</span> <span class="na">action</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;https://example.org/&quot;</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
  <span class="cm">&lt;!-- search      --&gt;</span> <span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">input</span> <span class="na">type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;text&quot;</span> <span class="na">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;q&quot;</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
  <span class="cm">&lt;!-- categories  --&gt;</span> <span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">input</span> <span class="na">type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;hidden&quot;</span> <span class="na">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;categories&quot;</span> <span class="na">value</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;general,social media&quot;</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
  <span class="cm">&lt;!-- language    --&gt;</span> <span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">input</span> <span class="na">type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;hidden&quot;</span> <span class="na">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;lang&quot;</span> <span class="na">value</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;all&quot;</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
  <span class="cm">&lt;!-- locale      --&gt;</span> <span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">input</span> <span class="na">type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;hidden&quot;</span> <span class="na">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;locale&quot;</span> <span class="na">value</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;en&quot;</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
  <span class="cm">&lt;!-- date filter --&gt;</span> <span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">input</span> <span class="na">type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;hidden&quot;</span> <span class="na">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;time_range&quot;</span> <span class="na">value</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;month&quot;</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
<span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">form</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
</pre></div>
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