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FOSS-Q Search

FOSS-Q is a proxy search engine that works.

About FOSS-Q

https://fossq.com/about

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 Qwant
Google CSE Google CSE Yandex Baidu Marginalia
Yahoo! JAPAN Yahoo! JAPAN Google YouTube
Startpage Startpage Yahoo! JAPAN SoundCloud
Yep Naver Startpage Startpage
Mwmbl Baidu Naver Kagi
Mojeek Solofield Baidu
Naver Pinterest Cốc Cốc
Baidu Flickr Purili
Cốc Cốc Pexels Solofield
Solofield Pixabay
Marginalia Unsplash
Purili 500px
wiby 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

AGPLv3-only