fossq/README.md

FOSS-Q Search

FOSS-Q is a proxy search engine that works.

About FOSS-Q

https://fossq.com/about

Totally unbiased comparison between alternatives

	FOSSQ	SearX(ng)	Whoogle	Degoog
RAM usage	100-400mb~	400mb-1GB	100mb	200mb-1GB
Does it suck	no	yes	kind of?	its kinda cool but no search filters
Does it work	yes	err	is dead	works right now...

Features

1. Rotating proxies on a per-scraper basis
2. Search filters, which SearxNG lacks for the most part
3. Bot protection that actually filters out the bots (when configured)
4. Interface doesn't require javascript
5. Favicon fetcher with caching support & image proxy
6. Bunch of other stuff

tl;dr FOSS-Q is the best way to browse for stuff.

Supported websites

web	images	videos	news	music	autocomplete
DuckDuckGo	DuckDuckGo	YouTube	DuckDuckGo	SoundCloud	Brave
Brave	Yandex	Vimeo	Brave	Swisscows	DuckDuckGo
Yandex	Brave	Sepia Search	Google		Yandex
Google	Google	DuckDuckGo	Yahoo! JAPAN		Google
Google API	Google API	Brave	Startpage		Startpage
Google CSE	Google CSE	Yandex	Qwant		Kagi
Yahoo! JAPAN	Yahoo! JAPAN	Google	Mojeek		Qwant
Startpage	Startpage	Yahoo! JAPAN	Baidu		Ghostery
Qwant	Qwant	Startpage			Yep
Ghostery	Baidu	Qwant			Marginalia
Yep	Solofield	Baidu			YouTube
Mwmbl	Pinterest	Coc Coc			SoundCloud
Mojeek	Cara	Solofield
Baidu	Flickr
Coc Coc	Pexels
Solofield	Pixabay
Marginalia	Unsplash
wiby	500px
	VSCO
	Imgur
	FindThatMeme

Installation

Refer to the documentation index. I recommend following the apache2 guide.

Contact

Stuff breaks all the time but I repair it all the time too. Email me here: dev(at)flossboxin(dot)org(dot)in or create an issue.

License

AGPL