LibreX
A privacy respecting free as in freedom meta search engine for Google
# Online instances
todo
# Features
+ Ad free
+ JavaScript free
+ Tracking snippets from URLs are removed
+ Image results are converted to base64 to prevent clients from connecting to Google servers
+ Supports both POST and GET requests
+ Easy to use JSON API
+ No 3rd party libs are used
+ Easy to setup
# Hosting
Hosting LibreX should be easy since no 3rd party libs are used.
All you need is a webserver (e.g.: nginx) and PHP, and you are good to go.
# API
Example API request: `.../api.php?q=gentoo&p=2&img_search=false`
Where `q` is the keyword and `p` is the result page (the first page is `p=0`)
JSON result:
+ In case of text search:
+ `title`: Title of the result site
+ `url`: Full URL of the result
+ `base_url`: The base URL of the result (e.g.: http://example.com/test.php -> http://example.com/)
+ In case of image search:
+ `base64`: The result image converted to base64 format
+ `alt`: The description of the image
The API also supports both GET and POST requests
# To do
+ Improve the quality of the CSS
+ Add more settings to config.php
+ Add special search features (e.g.: 10 usd to euro)
+ Add video results