LibreX

A privacy respecting free as in freedom meta search engine

Online instances

• search.davidovski.xyz 🇬🇧

If you wish to get your instance added create an issue with the new instance label and this information:

• the URL of your instance
• the country where your instance is being hosted

Your request will be rejected if your instance:

• contains JavaScript
• contains cookies
• contains ads
• has been heavily modified

Features

• Ad / JavaScript / cookie free
• Torrent results from popular torrent sites
• Special queries (e.g.: 1 btc to usd , what does xyz mean etc.)
• 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
• Popular social media sites (YouTube, Instagram, Twitter) are replaced with privacy friendly front-ends
• Easy to use JSON API for developers
• No 3rd party libs are used
• Easy to setup

Hosting

Hosting LibreX should be easy since no 3rd party PHP libs are used.

If you want to host it just for yourself a PHP development server should be enough:

git clone https://github.com/hnhx/librex.git
cd librex
sudo php -S 127.0.0.1:80

If you want to host an online instance you should consider using a production web server (e.g.: nginx).

API

Example API request: .../api.php?q=gentoo&p=2&type=0

q is the keyword
p is the result page (the first page is 0)
type is the search type (0=text, 1=image, 2=video, 3=torrent)

The API also supports both GET and POST requests

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