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<span id="settings-plugins"></span><h1>Plugins<a class="headerlink" href="#plugins" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<p>The built-in plugins can be activated or deactivated via the settings
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<span id="settings-enabled-plugins"></span><h2><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">enabled_plugins:</span></code> (internal)<a class="headerlink" href="#enabled-plugins-internal" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>In <a class="reference internal" href="../plugins.html#plugins-admin"><span class="std std-ref">List of plugins</span></a> you find a complete list of all plugins, the default
configuration looks like:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">enabled_plugins</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;Basic</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">Calculator&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;Hash</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">plugin&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;Self</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">Information&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;Tracker</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">URL</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">remover&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;Unit</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">converter</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">plugin&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;Ahmia</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">blacklist&#39;</span>
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<span id="settings-external-plugins"></span><h2><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">plugins:</span></code> (external)<a class="headerlink" href="#plugins-external" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>SearXNG supports <em>external plugins</em> / there is no need to install one, SearXNG
runs out of the box. But to demonstrate; in the example below we install the
SearXNG plugins from <em>The Green Web Foundation</em> <a class="reference external" href="https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/searching-the-green-web-with-searx/">[ref]</a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>utils/searxng.sh<span class="w"> </span>instance<span class="w"> </span>cmd<span class="w"> </span>bash<span class="w"> </span>-c
<span class="o">(</span>searxng-pyenv<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span>pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>git+https://github.com/return42/tgwf-searx-plugins
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<p>In the <a class="reference internal" href="settings.html#settings-yml"><span class="std std-ref">settings.yml</span></a> activate the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">plugins:</span></code> section and add module
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">only_show_green_results</span></code> from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tgwf-searx-plugins</span></code>.</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">plugins</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">only_show_green_results</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - mypackage.mymodule.MyPlugin</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - mypackage.mymodule.MyOtherPlugin</span>
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<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">only_show_green_results</span></code> is an old plugin that was still implemented in
the old style. There is a legacy treatment for backward compatibility, but
new plugins should be implemented as a <a class="reference internal" href="../../dev/plugins/development.html#searx.plugins.Plugin" title="searx.plugins.Plugin"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">searx.plugins.Plugin</span></code></a> class.</p>
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