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Searx admin interface: manage your instance from your browser
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One of the biggest advantages of searx is being extremely customizable. But at first it can be daunting to newcomers.
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A barrier of taking advantage of this feature is our ugly settings file which is sometimes hard to understand and edit.
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To make self-hosting searx more accessible a new tool is introduced, called ``searx-admin``.
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It is a web application which is capable of managing your instance and manipulating its settings via a web UI.
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It aims to replace editing of ``settings.yml`` for less experienced administrators or people
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who prefer graphical admin interfaces.
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.. figure:: searx-admin-engines.png
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:scale: 50 %
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:alt: Screenshot of engine list
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:align: center
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:figclass: align-center
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Configuration page of engines
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Since ``searx-admin`` acts as a supervisor for searx, we have decided to implement it
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as a standalone tool instead of part of searx. Another reason for making it a standalone
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tool is that the codebase and dependencies of searx should not grow because of a fully optional feature,
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which does not affect existing instances.
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Installation
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Installation guide can be found in the repository of searx-admin:
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https://github.com/kvch/searx-admin#installation--usage
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Acknowledgements
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This development was sponsored by `NLnet Foundation`_.
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.. _NLnet Foundation: https://nlnet.nl/
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| Happy hacking.
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| kvch // 2017.08.22 21:25
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