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Searx admin interface
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.. _searx-admin: https://github.com/kvch/searx-admin#searx-admin
.. _NLnet Foundation: https://nlnet.nl/
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manage your instance from your browser
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.. sidebar:: Installation
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Installation guide can be found in the repository of searx-admin_.
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One of the biggest advantages of searx is being extremely customizable. But at
first it can be daunting to newcomers. A barrier of taking advantage of this
feature is our ugly settings file which is sometimes hard to understand and
edit.
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To make self-hosting searx more accessible a new tool is introduced, called
``searx-admin``. It is a web application which is capable of managing your
instance and manipulating its settings via a web UI. It aims to replace editing
of ``settings.yml`` for less experienced administrators or people who prefer
graphical admin interfaces.
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.. figure:: searx-admin-engines.png
:alt: Screenshot of engine list
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Configuration page of engines
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Since ``searx-admin`` acts as a supervisor for searx, we have decided to
implement it as a standalone tool instead of part of searx. Another reason for
making it a standalone tool is that the codebase and dependencies of searx
should not grow because of a fully optional feature, which does not affect
existing instances.
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Acknowledgements
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This development was sponsored by `NLnet Foundation`_.
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| Happy hacking.
| kvch // 2017.08.22 21:25