spot for /e/

A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.

Spot was forked from searx: read documentation and the wiki for more information.

Changes between Spot and Searx

• eelo theme
• redis cache on http requests (TTL 1 day)
• docker packaging thinking to be production ready

Architecture

6 services are used for production:

• filtron as reverse HTTP proxy to filter requests by different rules.
• morty as proxy to serve thumbnails.
• nginx as http server to serve static files.
• Spot the meta search engine.
• tor as open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis.
• redis as memory storage to cache http requests

graph TD
  A(reverse proxy) --> |http://localhost:8088| B(filtron)
  A(reverse proxy) --> |https://localhost:8089| C(morty)
  C --> |image link| C
  B --> D(nginx)
  D --> |static file| D
  D --> |API| E(spot)
  E --> H(tor1)
  E --> I(tor2)
  E --> J(torN)
  E --> |cache| K(redis)

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Getting Started

You can run spot with docker-compose. First of all you have to install docker and docker-compose on your host, then follow instructions below to run spot for production or local environment.

Like production

Run the docker-compose to start the project

docker-compose up -d

Then go to http://localhost:8088.

For developer

You can directly run spot, with a python command inside a docker container which contains all dependencies. After running the docker-compose stack you can stop the default spot service and run the debug one with Flask server.

docker-compose rm -sf spot
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/ws -w /ws --hostname spot --network=my-spot_default --env-file .env registry.gitlab.e.foundation:5000/e/cloud/my-spot/env bash
PYTHONPATH=$(pwd) SEARX_DEBUG=1 python -X dev searx/webapp.py