Caching SearXNG Version 2

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In version 2 the caching filenames are hashed which means that international characters and symbols are supported and less likely to break searx.

  1. webapp.py in /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/webapp.py : def search()
  2. __init__.py in /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/search/__init__.py : class Search

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/cache

for i in {0..255}; do sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/cache/$(printf "%02x" $i); done

sudo chown -R root:searxng /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/cache

sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/cache

import hashlib

fname = request.form['q'] + str(search_query.pageno) + str(search_query.categories[0])

# Generate a hash of the search term

hash_object = hashlib.md5(fname.encode())

hex_dig = hash_object.hexdigest()

subdirectory = hex_dig[:2] # Use the first 2 characters of the hash as the subdirectory name

cache_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join("cache", subdirectory))

if not os.path.exists(cache_dir):

os.makedirs(cache_dir)

file_path = os.path.join(cache_dir, fname)

import hashlib

def search_standard(self):

"""

Update self.result_container, self.actual_timeout

"""

requests, self.actual_timeout = self._get_requests()

cache_dir = 'cache'

# send all search-request

fname = self.search_query.query.lower() + str(self.search_query.pageno) + str(self.search_query.categories[0])

hash_object = hashlib.md5(fname.encode())

hex_dig = hash_object.hexdigest()

subdirectory = hex_dig[:2] # Use the first 2 characters of the hash as the subdirectory name

query_dir = os.path.join(cache_dir, subdirectory)

mock_data_filename = os.path.join(query_dir, fname)

# Check if the file exists in the cache directory

if requests:

if os.path.isfile(mock_data_filename):

self.search_multiple_requests2(requests)

else:

self.search_multiple_requests(requests)

# return results, suggestions, answers and infoboxes

return True

  

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