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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

# Dump results into a cache file named after the keyword
# Sanitize the search query string for use as a filename
first_char = save_q[0].lower()
subdir = f'cache/{first_char}'
sanitized_query = re.sub(r'[\/:?"*|<>']', '_', save_q)
filename = f'{sanitized_query}'
filepath = os.path.join(subdir, filename)

with open(filepath, 'w') as file:
    file.write(str(results))
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