A minimal metasearch engine in C. Works without JS sans a few niceties.
I have been a bit disappointed with the memory usage and speed of SXNG (i.e. such as when ranking many results). This is probably due to the nature of an interpreted language.
For priv, I have put performance at the forefront. I have made many micro optimisations and also gave the UI a small refresh in a way I've always wanted to do but never had the tools to do it. More updates will be on the way.
This whole project has been made possible through the use of LLMs (AI assisted development) - please note this is still very much in beta and may have bugs despite me taking care for it not to.
 Calculator |
 Unit converter |
 Colour picker |
 Preferences |
 Web results |
 Images |
docker run -d --name priv -p 127.0.0.1:8888:8888 -v priv-cache:/cache ghcr.io/vojkovic/priv:latest
Then open http://127.0.0.1:8888 in your browser
Make priv yours!
You can edit the config.toml to change things such as the instance name, listen address, timeouts, bot detection and which engines are on.
curl -o config.toml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vojkovic/priv/master/config.toml
docker run -d --name priv -p 127.0.0.1:8888:8888 -v priv-cache:/cache -v ./config.toml:/etc/priv/config.toml:ro ghcr.io/vojkovic/priv:latest
make format
make format-check
make lint # clang-tidy and cppcheck
Most of the bangs are supported:
!g,!br,!yt(or!google_imagesby name) (and!!gto redirect)!images,!videos,!news,!music,!tech,!researcha whole category:de,:en-AU,:german,:deutschlandthe search language<3a timeout of 3 seconds max
| category | engines |
|---|---|
| general | google, google docs, bing, google cse, brave, duckduckgo, duckduckgo web, dogpile, qwant, tusksearch, wiktionary, privacywall, oceanhero, swisscows, iseek, s1search, wikipedia |
| images | google images, google cse images, brave images, duckduckgo images, dogpile images, tusksearch images |
| videos | google videos, duckduckgo videos, youtube, brave videos, bing videos, dailymotion |
| news | google news, duckduckgo news, reuters, brave news, abc news, bing news, wikinews |
| music | soundcloud, wikicommons audio, genius, mixcloud, radio browser, abc radio |
| tech | arch linux wiki, mdn, mankier, pypi, stackoverflow, askubuntu, superuser |
| research | arxiv, europepmc, pdbe, pubmed, openalex, crossref, google scholar |