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							SQL Engines
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							.. sidebar:: further read
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							   - `SQLite <https://www.sqlite.org/index.html>`_
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							   - `PostgreSQL <https://www.postgresql.org>`_
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							   - `MySQL <https://www.mysql.com>`_
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							.. sidebar:: info
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							   Initial sponsored by `Search and Discovery Fund
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							   <https://nlnet.nl/discovery>`_ of `NLnet Foundation <https://nlnet.nl/>`_.
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							With the *SQL engines* you can bind SQL databases into SearXNG.  The following
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							Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) are supported:
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							- :ref:`engine sqlite`
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							- :ref:`engine postgresql`
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							- :ref:`engine mysql_server` & :ref:`engine mariadb_server`
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							All of the engines above are just commented out in the :origin:`settings.yml
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							<searx/settings.yml>`, as you have to set the required attributes for the
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							engines, e.g. ``database:`` ...
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							.. code:: yaml
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							   - name: ...
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							     engine: {sqlite|postgresql|mysql_server}
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							     database: ...
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							     result_template: {template_name}
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							     query_str: ...
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							By default, the engines use the ``key-value`` template for displaying results /
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							see :origin:`simple <searx/templates/simple/result_templates/key-value.html>`
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							theme.  If you are not satisfied with the original result layout, you can use
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							your own template, set ``result_template`` attribute to ``{template_name}`` and
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							place the templates at::
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							  searx/templates/{theme_name}/result_templates/{template_name}
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							If you do not wish to expose these engines on a public instance, you can still
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							add them and limit the access by setting ``tokens`` as described in section
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							:ref:`private engines`.
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							Extra Dependencies
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							For using :ref:`engine postgresql` or :ref:`engine mysql_server` you need to
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							install additional packages in Python's Virtual Environment of your SearXNG
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							instance.  To switch into the environment (:ref:`searxng-src`) you can use
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							:ref:`searxng.sh`::
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							  $ sudo utils/searxng.sh instance cmd bash
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							  (searxng-pyenv)$ pip install ...
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							Configure the engines
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							The configuration of the new database engines are similar.  You must put a valid
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							SQL-SELECT query in ``query_str``.  At the moment you can only bind at most one
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							parameter in your query.  By setting the attribute ``limit`` you can define how
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							many results you want from the SQL server.  Basically, it is the same as the
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							``LIMIT`` keyword in SQL.
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							Please, do not include ``LIMIT`` or ``OFFSET`` in your SQL query as the engines
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							rely on these keywords during paging.  If you want to configure the number of
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							returned results use the option ``limit``.
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							.. _engine sqlite:
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							SQLite
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							   - :origin:`sqlite.py <searx/engines/sqlite.py>`
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							.. automodule:: searx.engines.sqlite
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							.. _engine postgresql:
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							PostgreSQL
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							.. _psycopg2: https://www.psycopg.org/install
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							   - :origin:`postgresql.py <searx/engines/postgresql.py>`
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							   - ``pip install`` `psycopg2-binary <psycopg2>`_
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							.. automodule:: searx.engines.postgresql
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							.. _engine mysql_server:
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							MySQL
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							   - :origin:`mysql_server.py <searx/engines/mysql_server.py>`
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							   - ``pip install`` :pypi:`mysql-connector-python <mysql-connector-python>`
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							.. automodule:: searx.engines.mysql_server
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							.. _engine mariadb_server:
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							MariaDB
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							   - :origin:`mariadb_server.py <searx/engines/mariadb_server.py>`
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							   - ``pip install`` :pypi:`mariadb <mariadb>`
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							.. automodule:: searx.engines.mariadb_server
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