From eca1af4be11fa9533afa34b5acc39d428c4711d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bnyro <bnyro@tutanota.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 13:43:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [del] heexy: remove engine due to cloudflare captcha (#6625)

---
 searx/engines/heexy.py | 127 -----------------------------------------
 searx/settings.yml     |  16 ------
 2 files changed, 143 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 searx/engines/heexy.py

diff --git a/searx/engines/heexy.py b/searx/engines/heexy.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 73abc44b3..000000000
--- a/searx/engines/heexy.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,127 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-"""Heexy_ is a minimalist search engine that focuses on privacy.
-
-Although it also supports news and videos, these are not implemented here
-because they usually return no result to very few irrelevant ones.
-
-It seems to use Bing internally, as the image thumbnails are loaded from Bing.
-
-.. _Heexy: https://docs.heexy.org/introduction
-
-"""
-
-from urllib.parse import urlencode
-
-import typing as t
-
-from searx.enginelib import EngineCache
-from searx.network import get
-from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineAPIException, SearxEngineAccessDeniedException
-from searx.result_types import EngineResults
-from searx.utils import gen_useragent
-
-if t.TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from searx.extended_types import SXNG_Response
-    from searx.search.processors import OnlineParams
-
-about = {
-    "website": "https://heexy.org",
-    "wikidata_id": None,
-    "official_api_documentation": None,
-    "use_official_api": False,
-    "require_api_key": False,
-    "results": "JSON",
-}
-
-paging = True
-safesearch = True
-
-categories = ["general"]
-heexy_categ = "web"
-"""Category to search in. Can be either "web" or "image"."""
-
-
-base_url = "https://heexy.org"
-api_url = "https://seapi.heexy.org"
-safe_search_map = {0: "off", 1: "on", 2: "on"}
-
-CACHE: EngineCache
-"""Cache for storing the ``X-Data-Cacheft`` token (acts like an API key)."""
-
-
-def setup(engine_settings: dict[str, t.Any]) -> bool:
-    global CACHE  # pylint: disable=global-statement
-
-    if heexy_categ not in ("web", "image"):
-        raise ValueError("invalid search category: %s" % heexy_categ)
-
-    CACHE = EngineCache(engine_settings["name"])
-    return True
-
-
-def _get_api_token(query: str) -> str:
-    """The API token is independent of the search query. We just need any query
-    to obtain it initially, and don't hardcode it here to decrease chances of
-    getting blocked. The token must be passed as ``X-Data-Cacheft`` header."""
-
-    cached_token: str = CACHE.get("token")
-    if cached_token:
-        return cached_token
-
-    resp = get(
-        f"{base_url}/search?q={query}", headers={"User-Agent": gen_useragent(), "Accept-Language": "en-US,en:q=0.9"}
-    )
-    if not resp.ok:
-        raise SearxEngineAPIException("failed to obtain request token: invalid response code")
-
-    token = resp.cookies["cacheft"]
-    if not token:
-        raise SearxEngineAPIException("failed to obtain request token: no token found")
-
-    CACHE.set("token", token, expire=3 * 60)
-    return token
-
-
-def request(query: str, params: "OnlineParams") -> None:
-    args = {
-        "q": query,
-        "page": params["pageno"],
-        "safe": safe_search_map[params["safesearch"]],
-    }
-    if params["searxng_locale"] != "all":
-        args["lang"] = params["searxng_locale"].split("-")[0]
-
-    params["url"] = f"{api_url}/search/{heexy_categ}?{urlencode(args)}"
-
-    params["headers"]["Origin"] = api_url
-    params["cookies"]["cacheft"] = _get_api_token(query)
-
-
-def response(resp: "SXNG_Response"):
-    res = EngineResults()
-
-    json_resp = resp.json()
-    if not json_resp["success"]:
-        raise SearxEngineAccessDeniedException()
-
-    result: dict[str, str]
-    for result in json_resp["results"]:
-        if heexy_categ == "web":
-            res.add(
-                res.types.MainResult(
-                    url=result["url"],
-                    title=result["title"],
-                    content=result["description"],
-                )
-            )
-        elif heexy_categ == "image":
-            res.add(
-                res.types.Image(
-                    title=result["description"],
-                    url=result["url"],
-                    thumbnail_src=result["image"],
-                    img_src=result["rawImage"],
-                )
-            )
-
-    return res
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index a01f06e6a..c191d33a4 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -1296,22 +1296,6 @@ engines:
     shortcut: hn
     disabled: true
 
-  - name: heexy
-    engine: heexy
-    categories: general
-    heexy_categ: web
-    shortcut: he
-    disabled: true
-    inactive: true
-
-  - name: heexy images
-    engine: heexy
-    categories: images
-    heexy_categ: image
-    shortcut: hei
-    disabled: true
-    inactive: true
-
   - name: hex
     engine: hex
     shortcut: hex