[Surfraw-devel] elvi extension for searx

[krosos]

Jason Ryan <jasonwryan at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Nils,
>
> On 19/08/15 at 07:39pm, krosos wrote:
>>Hi Jason,
>>
>>of course.
>>
>>This comment is based on my interpretation that you mean the actual elvi
>>and not the commented section.
>>At first, this is my first elvi and I'm not that experienced in bash
>>scripting.
>>I am looking to get later a method to get an up to date list of all
>>instances and have the option to spread the query to different
>>instances, or the one set as favorit, or something similar.
>>Inclusion of non-www networks is equally important.
>>
>>I filtered out all the non-working and certificate error servers.
>>
>>It's just the first release, so if anyone sees something worth improving
>>in it, feel free to change.
>>
>>Theoretically it could be cut down to searx.me, but there are other
>>services and hopefully in the near future we get some transparency on
>>the logging / anonymizing of the individual instances, so some could be
>>filtered out that way.
>>
>>I think my initial thoughts were that I wanted to offer all possible
>>options and not leave out instances which are working, so queries could
>>theoretically be spread more between instances.
>>In practice, my approach might be improved.
>>
> That makes sense.
>
> How about, initially anyway, we just offer a handful of (testable) servers,
> simply in the interests of manageability?
>
> It is a great service, by the way; I'd not encountered it before. Thanks!
>
> /J

Okay,

then how about:
searx.me , laquadrature.net , privatesearch.io , laquadrature + searx's
hidden-service addresses and the one hyperboria address?

I will push this changes to the github repo later today for this elvi
(and more elvis to come) if this looks okay to you.


Nils / krosos