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SearXNG installs itself on /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src, with the main source code in searxng-src directory.

To hack the results, the file is webapp.py in /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/webapp.py

The function in webapp.py is...

@app.route('/search', methods=[['GET', 'POST']])
def search():
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One sqlite3 database. Named: searxng_distributed_cache.db3

1. stores the search terms
2. stores the urls

The database is distributed, the keywords have to go to maintainers, they perform searches, robot queries build a more comprehensive database.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS search_results (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
    search_term_id INTEGER,
    url TEXT,
    title TEXT,
    content TEXT,
    img_src TEXT,
    engine TEXT,
    parsed_url TEXT[],
    template TEXT,
    engines TEXT[],
    positions INTEGER[],
    published_date DATE,
    score REAL,
    category TEXT,
    pretty_url TEXT,
    pubdate DATETIME,
    open_group BOOLEAN,
    FOREIGN KEY(search_term_id) REFERENCES search_terms(query) ON DELETE CASCADE
);
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and

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "search_terms" (
	"id"	INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
	"query"	TEXT UNIQUE
);
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Proposed searXNG options:

• use cache
• update the cache
• disclosure to end user

Benefits:

• turns searXNG into a full search engine built from caching results
• searches are against a local file, so it speeds up searching significantly
• offline searching