LibreX

A privacy respecting free as in freedom meta search engine for Google

Online instances

search.davidovski.xyz 🇬🇧

If you wish to get your instance added create an issue with:

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
has been heavily modified

Features

Ad free
JavaScript free
Tracking snippets from URLs are removed
Image results are converted to base64 to prevent clients from connecting to Google servers
Supports both POST and GET requests
Easy to use JSON API
No 3rd party libs are used
Easy to setup

Hosting

Hosting LibreX should be easy since no 3rd party libs are used.
All you need is a webserver (e.g.: nginx) and PHP, and you are good to go.

API

Example API request: .../api.php?q=gentoo&p=2&img_search=false
Where q is the keyword and p is the result page (the first page is p=0)

JSON result:

In case of text search:
- title: Title of the result site
- url: Full URL of the result
- base_url: The base URL of the result (e.g.: http://example.com/test.php -> http://example.com/)
In case of image search:
- base64: The result image converted to base64 format
- alt: The description of the image

The API also supports both GET and POST requests

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To do

Improve the quality of the CSS
Add more settings to config.php
Add video results

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