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<section id="module-searx.plugins.hostnames">
<span id="hostnames"></span><span id="hostnames-plugin"></span><h1>Hostnames<a class="headerlink" href="#module-searx.plugins.hostnames" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<div class="admonition attention">
<p class="admonition-title">Attention</p>
<p>The <strong>“Hostname replace”</strong> plugin has been replace by <strong>“Hostnames
plugin”</strong>, see <a class="extlink-pull reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/3463">PR 3463</a> &amp; <a class="extlink-pull reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/3552">PR 3552</a>.</p>
</div>
<p>The <strong>Hostnames plugin</strong> can be enabled by adding it to the
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">enabled_plugins</span></code> <strong>list</strong> in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">setting.yml</span></code> like so.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><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;Hostnames</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">plugin&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div></blockquote>
<ul>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostnames.replace</span></code>: A <strong>mapping</strong> of regular expressions to hostnames to be
replaced by other hostnames.</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">hostnames</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">replace</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?youtube\.com$&#39;</span><span class="p p-Indicator">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;invidious.example.com&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?youtu\.be$&#39;</span><span class="p p-Indicator">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;invidious.example.com&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostnames.remove</span></code>: A <strong>list</strong> of regular expressions of the hostnames whose
results should be taken from the results list.</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">hostnames</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">remove</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?facebook.com$&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostnames.high_priority</span></code>: A <strong>list</strong> of regular expressions for hostnames
whose result should be given higher priority. The results from these hosts are
arranged higher in the results list.</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">hostnames</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">high_priority</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?wikipedia.org$&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostnames.lower_priority</span></code>: A <strong>list</strong> of regular expressions for hostnames
whose result should be given lower priority. The results from these hosts are
arranged lower in the results list.</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">hostnames</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">low_priority</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?google(\..*)?$&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<p>If the URL matches the pattern of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">high_priority</span></code> AND <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">low_priority</span></code>, the
higher priority wins over the lower priority.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can also specify a file name for the <strong>mappings</strong> or
<strong>lists</strong> to load these from an external file:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">hostnames</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">replace</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;rewrite-hosts.yml&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">remove</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?facebook.com$&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">low_priority</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?google(\..*)?$&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">high_priority</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?wikipedia.org$&#39;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rewrite-hosts.yml</span></code> from the example above must be in the folder in which
the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">settings.yml</span></code> file is already located (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/etc/searxng</span></code>). The file then
only contains the lists or the mapping tables without further information on the
namespaces. In the example above, this would be a mapping table that looks
something like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?youtube\.com$&#39;</span><span class="p p-Indicator">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;invidious.example.com&#39;</span>
<span class="s">&#39;(.*\.)?youtu\.be$&#39;</span><span class="p p-Indicator">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;invidious.example.com&#39;</span>
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