diff --git a/searx/engines/faroo.py b/searx/engines/faroo.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8c69c5bee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/engines/faroo.py
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+## Faroo (Web, News)
+# 
+# @website     http://www.faroo.com
+# @provide-api yes (http://www.faroo.com/hp/api/api.html), require API-key
+# 
+# @using-api   yes
+# @results     JSON
+# @stable      yes
+# @parse       url, title, content, publishedDate, img_src
+
+from urllib import urlencode
+from json import loads
+import datetime
+from searx.utils import searx_useragent
+
+# engine dependent config
+categories = ['general', 'news']
+paging = True
+language_support = True
+number_of_results = 10
+api_key = None
+
+# search-url
+url = 'http://www.faroo.com/'
+search_url = url + 'api?{query}&start={offset}&length={number_of_results}&l={language}&src={categorie}&i=false&f=json&key={api_key}'
+
+search_category = {'general': 'web',                
+                'news': 'news'}
+
+# do search-request
+def request(query, params):
+    offset = (params['pageno']-1) * number_of_results + 1
+    categorie = search_category.get(params['category'], 'web')
+
+    if params['language'] == 'all':
+        language = 'en'
+    else:
+        language = params['language'].split('_')[0]
+
+    # skip, if language is not supported
+    if language != 'en' and\
+       language != 'de' and\
+       language != 'zh':
+        return params
+
+    params['url'] = search_url.format(offset=offset,
+                                      number_of_results=number_of_results,
+                                      query=urlencode({'q': query}),
+                                      language=language,
+                                      categorie=categorie,
+                                      api_key=api_key )
+
+    # using searx User-Agent
+    params['headers']['User-Agent'] = searx_useragent()
+
+    return params
+
+
+# get response from search-request
+def response(resp):
+    # HTTP-Code 401: api-key is not valide
+    if resp.status_code == 401:
+        raise Exception("API key is not valide")
+        return []
+
+    # HTTP-Code 429: rate limit exceeded
+    if resp.status_code == 429:
+        raise Exception("rate limit has been exceeded!")
+        return []
+
+    results = []
+
+    search_res = loads(resp.text)
+
+    # return empty array if there are no results
+    if not search_res.get('results', {}):
+        return []
+
+    # parse results
+    for result in search_res['results']:
+        if result['news']:
+            # timestamp (how many milliseconds have passed between now and the beginning of 1970)
+            publishedDate = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(result['date']/1000.0)
+
+            # append news result
+            results.append({'url': result['url'],
+                            'title': result['title'],
+                            'publishedDate': publishedDate,
+                            'content': result['kwic']})
+
+        else:
+            # append general result
+            # TODO, publishedDate correct?
+            results.append({'url': result['url'],
+                            'title': result['title'],
+                            'content': result['kwic']})
+
+        # append image result if image url is set
+        # TODO, show results with an image like in faroo
+        if result['iurl']:
+            results.append({'template': 'images.html',
+                            'url': result['url'],
+                            'title': result['title'],
+                            'content': result['kwic'],  
+                            'img_src': result['iurl']})
+
+    # return results
+    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 8586b5069..c4589a0a7 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ engines:
     engine : duckduckgo
     shortcut : ddg
 
+# api-key required: http://www.faroo.com/hp/api/api.html#key
+#  - name : faroo
+#    engine : faroo
+#    shortcut : fa
+#    api_key : 'apikey' # required!
+
 # down - website is under criminal investigation by the UK
 #  - name : filecrop
 #    engine : filecrop
diff --git a/searx/utils.py b/searx/utils.py
index a9ece355a..28e42b272 100644
--- a/searx/utils.py
+++ b/searx/utils.py
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ def gen_useragent():
     return ua.format(os=choice(ua_os), version=choice(ua_versions))
 
 
+def searx_useragent():
+    return 'searx'
+    
 def highlight_content(content, query):
 
     if not content: