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<span id="id1"></span><h1><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">settings.yml</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#settings-yml" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>This page describe the options possibilities of the <a class="extlink-origin reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/settings.yml">git://searx/settings.yml</a>
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<p>The initial <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">settings.yml</span></code> we be load from these locations:</p>
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<li><p>the full path specified in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH</span></code> environment variable.</p></li>
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see how you can simplify your <em>user defined</em> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">settings.yml</span></code>.</p>
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<p class="sidebar-title"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">use_default_settings:</span> <span class="pre">true</span></code></p>
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<p>The user defined <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">settings.yml</span></code> is loaded from the <a class="reference internal" href="#settings-location"><span class="std std-ref">settings.yml location</span></a>
and can relied on the default configuration <a class="extlink-origin reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/settings.yml">git://searx/settings.yml</a> using:</p>
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<div><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">use_default_settings:</span> <span class="pre">true</span></code></p>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">server:</span></code></dt><dd><p>In the following example, the actual settings are the default settings defined
in <a class="extlink-origin reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/settings.yml">git://searx/settings.yml</a> with the exception of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">secret_key</span></code> and
the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bind_address</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">use_default_settings</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="nt">server</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">secret_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;ultrasecretkey&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># change this!</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">bind_address</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;0.0.0.0&quot;</span>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">engines:</span></code></dt><dd><p>With <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">use_default_settings:</span> <span class="pre">true</span></code>, each settings can be override in a
similar way, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">engines</span></code> section is merged according to the engine
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">name</span></code>. In this example, SearXNG will load all the default engines, will
enable the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bing</span></code> engine and define a <a class="reference internal" href="settings_engine.html#private-engines"><span class="std std-ref">token</span></a> for
the arch linux engine:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">use_default_settings</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="nt">server</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">secret_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;ultrasecretkey&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># change this!</span>
<span class="nt">engines</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">arch linux wiki</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">tokens</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="s">&#39;$ecretValue&#39;</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">bing</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">disabled</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">engines:</span></code> / <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">remove:</span></code></dt><dd><p>It is possible to remove some engines from the default settings. The following
example is similar to the above one, but SearXNG doesnt load the the google
engine:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">use_default_settings</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engines</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">remove</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">google</span>
<span class="nt">server</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">secret_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;ultrasecretkey&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># change this!</span>
<span class="nt">engines</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">arch linux wiki</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">tokens</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="s">&#39;$ecretValue&#39;</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">engines:</span></code> / <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">keep_only:</span></code></dt><dd><p>As an alternative, it is possible to specify the engines to keep. In the
following example, SearXNG has only two engines:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">use_default_settings</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engines</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">keep_only</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">google</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">duckduckgo</span>
<span class="nt">server</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">secret_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;ultrasecretkey&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># change this!</span>
<span class="nt">engines</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">google</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">tokens</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="s">&#39;$ecretValue&#39;</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">duckduckgo</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">tokens</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="s">&#39;$ecretValue&#39;</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
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