LibreX

A privacy respecting free as in freedom meta search engine

Online instances

URL	Country	TOR	I2P
librex.beparanoid.de	🇨🇭 CH	✅	✅
search.davidovski.xyz	🇬🇧 UK	❌	❌
librex.elpengu.com	🇫🇷 FR	❌	❌

If you wish to get your instance added create an issue with the new instance label and this information:

• the URL of your instance
• the country where your instance is being hosted

Your request will be rejected if your instance:

• contains JavaScript
• contains ads
• have cloudflare protection

Features

• Ad & JavaScript free
• Torrent results from popular torrent sites
• Special queries (e.g.: 2.4 btc to usd)
• Tracking snippets from URLs are removed
• Multiple color themes
• Image results are converted to base64 to prevent clients from connecting to Google servers
• Supports both POST and GET requests
• Popular social media sites (YouTube, Instagram, Twitter etc.) are replaced with privacy friendly front-ends
• Easy to use JSON API for developers
• No 3rd party libs are used
• Easy to setup

Hosting

Install the packages:

sudo apt install php php-fpm php-dom php-curl nginx

Clone LibreX:

git clone https://github.com/hnhx/librex.git

Make sure that the config and the opensearch file won't change when you do git pull:

cd librex
mv config.php.example config.php
mv opensearch.xml.example opensearch.xml

Change opensearch.xml to point to your domain:

sed -i 's/http:\/\/localhost/https:\/\/your.domain/g' opensearch.xml

To keep LibreX up to date enable the LibreX systemd service:

cp librex_updater.service /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl enable --now librex_updater # edit the service file before you enable it

Example nginx config:

server {
        listen 80;

        server_name your.domain;

        root /var/www/html/librex;
        index index.php;

        location ~ \.php$ {
               include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
               fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        }
}

Start the php-fpm and the nginx systemd service

sudo systemctl enable --now php7.4-fpm nginx # replace the version if its needed

Now LibreX should be running!

API

Example API request: .../api.php?q=gentoo&p=2&type=0

q is the keyword
p is the result page (the first page is 0)
type is the search type (0=text, 1=image, 2=video, 3=torrent)

The API also supports both POST and GET requests.

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