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2.3.1 Satellite: SearXNG

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Handle: searxng
URL: http://localhost:33811/

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A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases.

Starting

# [Optional] pre-pull the searxng image
harbor pull searxng

# Start the service
# --open is optional to open the browser automatically
harbor up searxng --open
  • Harbor connects SearXNG to the following services when run together: webui, ldr, chatui, chatnio, perplexica, anythingllm
  • You can point all services in Harbor to use external SearXNG instance via HARBOR_SEARXNG_INTERNAL_URL configuration option (see below)

Screenshot of Open WebUI Web RAG Functionality

Configuration

Can be configured via the files in the services/searxng folder. Configuration reference.

Following options can be set via harbor config:

# The port on the host where SearXNG endpoint will be available
HARBOR_SEARXNG_HOST_PORT      33811

# Docker image to use for SearXNG
HARBOR_SEARXNG_IMAGE          searxng/searxng

# Docker image tag to use for SearXNG
HARBOR_SEARXNG_VERSION        latest

# This is the URL Harbor will use to connect its services
# to the SearXNG instance. It can be replaced with
# your own or remote SearXNG instance if needed
HARBOR_SEARXNG_INTERNAL_URL   http://searxng:8080

# The path to the SearXNG workspace on the host
# This is where the configuration files are stored
# Should be either relative to $(harbor home) or absolute path
HARBOR_SEARXNG_WORKSPACE      ./services/searxng

See environment configuration guide to set arbitrary environment variables for the service.

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