WiLYSearch

WiLYSearch is a fork of LibreY, which is a fork of LibreX, a framework-less and javascript-free privacy respecting meta search engine, made by hnhx. LibreY changed some features like automatic redirection, which is carried over in this. The original code is written by hnhx and contributors

Matrix

If there's an important announcement, we do have a Matrix chatroom which you can join over at #librey:ahwx.org.

Instances

WiLYSearch doesn't have any public instances, but you can find a list of instances on any LibreY instance by accessing /instances.php.
Alternatively look at instances.json where the list is generated from.

While the official instances may be more updated and have better uptime, please consider using another person's instances as these are heavily overloaded.
Support the community. ❤️

@Ahwxorg's instance:
search.ahwx.org
Tor
search2.ahwx.org
Tor
search3.ahwx.org
Tor

@davidovski's instance:
search.davidovski.xyz

@codedipper's instance:
librex.me
librex.revvy.de
Tor
I2P

How to host WiLYSearch

To host WiLYSearch using Docker, you can follow the instructions in the Docker directory.

To host WiLYSearch using your OS's native package manager and PHP+NGINX, you can use the following steps as a guide.

These instructions are specific to Debian GNU/Linux but should be similar on most *nix variants (differences may include commands for package management, init system, php-fpm.sock location and availability of fastcgi-php.conf)

Install the packages (Debian GNU/Linux):

sudo apt install php php-fpm php-dom php-curl php-apcu nginx git

Install the packages (Arch Linux):

sudo pacman -S php php-fpm php-apcu nginx git

Clone WiLYSearch:

mkdir -p /var/www/html
git clone https://github.com/Ahwxorg/LibreY.git /var/www/html/LibreY

Rename the config and opensearch files, edit manually if needed:

cd /var/www/html/LibreY/
mv config.php.example config.php
mv opensearch.xml.example opensearch.xml

Change opensearch.xml to point to your domain:

sed -i 's/http:\/\/localhost:80/https:\/\/your.domain/g' opensearch.xml

An nginx configuration similar to the one below should be placed in your http { ... } block or a file that is automatically detected as such.

server {
        listen 80;

        server_name your.domain;

        root /var/www/html/LibreY;
        index index.php;

        location ~ \.php$ {
               include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
               fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
        }
}

You can optionally remove the .php extension in URLs by adding this code your server { ... } block.

location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ @extensionless-php;
}

location @extensionless-php {
       rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
}

Start php-fpm and nginx immediately and on every boot:

sudo systemctl enable --now php-fpm nginx

Now WiLYSearch should be running at the port you specified!

About WiLYSearch

WiLYSearch gives you text results from Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Ecosia, Yandex Search and Mojeek. WiLYSearch provides images from Qwant, and torrents from i.e. Ahmia and popular torrent sites. WiLYSearch does this without spying on you.
WiLYSearch doesn't save any type of data about the user, there are no logs (except NGINX logs if the host sets them).

WiLYSearch compared to other metasearch engines

Name	Works without JS	Privacy frontend redirect	Torrent results	API	No 3rd party libs used	Moar salmon pink	Better
WiLY	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
LibreY	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
SearXNG	❓ Not user friendly	❓ Only host can set it	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Whoogle	✅	❓ Only host can set it	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌