searx checker

A small command line tool to check which engines return results of an instance.

In case of older searx versions the engines currency return error when in fact it is working. To make it work correctly, please update the instance examined to the latest commit.

Requirements

• Python 3.5

Installation

git clone git@github.com:kvch/searx-checker.git
cd searx-checker
vitualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python3 checker/checker.py <instance-url>

Example output of an instance with 2 non-responsive engines and 3 working engines.

python3 checker/checker.py http://localhost:8888
Testing 5 engines of http://localhost:8888
google.OK
bing.OK
gitlab......ERROR
vimeo......ERROR
twitter.OK

Engines of http://localhost:8888 not returning results:
gitlab
vimeo
You might want to check these manually...