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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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A cache could work by...

• making a directory in the searx folder named cache
• make sub-folders in the cache directory from a to z and 0 to 9

• name the cache files after the search term
• check filename exists when a search is performed
• if there is a match read in the local file instead and avoid the search
• send the keywords to the maintainers so they can update the cache. They can then crawl the search engines and build a more comprehensive cache.

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 if the cache gets big enough