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# Yacy

YaCy is a free distributed search engine, built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

API: Dev:APIyacysearch

Releases:

- https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/tags

- https://download.yacy.net/

## Configuration

The engine has the following (additional) settings:

- `http_digest_auth_user`

- `http_digest_auth_pass`

- `search_mode`

- `search_type`

The `base_url` has to be set in the engine named yacy and is used by all yacy engines (unless an individual value for `base_url` is configured for the engine).

    - name: yacy
      engine: yacy
      categories: general
      search_type: text
      shortcut: ya
      base_url:
        - https://yacy.searchlab.eu
        - https://search.lomig.me
        - https://yacy.ecosys.eu
        - https://search.webproject.link

    - name: yacy images
      engine: yacy
      categories: images
      search_type: image
      shortcut: yai
      disabled: true

## Implementations

searx.engines.yacy.http_digest_auth_user = ''

  HTTP digest user for the local YACY instance

searx.engines.yacy.http_digest_auth_pass = ''

  HTTP digest password for the local YACY instance

searx.engines.yacy.search_mode = 'global'

  Yacy search mode `global` or `local`. By default, Yacy operates in `global` mode.

  `global`

    Peer-to-Peer search

  `local`

    Privacy or Stealth mode, restricts the search to local yacy instance.

searx.engines.yacy.search_type = 'text'

  One of `text`, `image` / The search-types `app`, `audio` and `video` are not yet implemented (Pull-Requests are welcome).

searx.engines.yacy.base_url: list [ str ] | str = []

  The value is an URL or a list of URLs. In the latter case instance will be selected randomly.