diff --git a/searx/engines/ccengine.py b/searx/engines/ccengine.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6f3a5adb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/engines/ccengine.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+"""
+
+ Creative Commons search engine (Images)
+
+"""
+
+from json import loads
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+
+
+about = {
+    "website": 'https://search.creativecommons.org/',
+    "wikidata_id": None,
+    "official_api_documentation": 'https://api.creativecommons.engineering/v1/',
+    "use_official_api": True,
+    "require_api_key": False,
+    "results": 'JSON',
+}
+
+categories = ['images']
+
+paging = True
+nb_per_page = 20
+
+base_url = 'https://api.creativecommons.engineering/v1/images?'
+search_string = '&page={page}&page_size={nb_per_page}&format=json&{query}'
+
+
+def request(query, params):
+
+    search_path = search_string.format(
+        query=urlencode({'q': query}),
+        nb_per_page=nb_per_page,
+        page=params['pageno'])
+
+    params['url'] = base_url + search_path
+
+    return params
+
+
+def response(resp):
+    results = []
+
+    json_data = loads(resp.text)
+
+    for result in json_data['results']:
+        results.append({'url': result['foreign_landing_url'],
+                        'title': result['title'],
+                        'img_src': result['url'],
+                        'template': 'images.html'})
+
+    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 05fb92c6..4aac9170 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -256,6 +256,11 @@ engines:
       require_api_key: false
       results: HTML
 
+  - name : ccengine
+    engine : ccengine
+    categories : images
+    shortcut : cce
+
   - name : crossref
     engine : json_engine
     paging : True