9 open-source Search Engines projects

Search Engines (Alternative Frontends): open-source projects that exist because someone reverse engineered a closed product, sorted by GitHub stars.

1. searxng★ 38,910 · active · Python

   Metasearch engine that scrapes and aggregates results from many search services

2. searx★ 13,562 · active · Python

   Privacy-respecting metasearch engine (predecessor of SearXNG)

3. Whoogle Search★ 11,559 · archived · Python

   Self-hosted ad-free Google search proxy that scrapes results

4. Degoog★ 2,460 · active · TypeScript

   Search engine frontend that scrapes Google results

5. librex★ 843 · slowing · PHP

   JavaScript-free privacy meta search engine scraping Google and others (LibreX)

6. araa-search★ 335 · active · Python

   Self-hosted privacy Google metasearch engine with API (scrapes Google results)

7. LibreY★ 324 · active · PHP

   Privacy-respecting metasearch engine scraping Google and others

8. 4get★ 0

   Proxy search engine that scrapes Google, Bing, DDG and more

9. rens★ 0

   Alternative frontend for Google Lens