# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later # lint: pylint """.. _limiter src: Limiter ======= .. sidebar:: info The limiter requires a :ref:`Redis ` database. Bot protection / IP rate limitation. The intention of rate limitation is to limit suspicious requests from an IP. The motivation behind this is the fact that SearXNG passes through requests from bots and is thus classified as a bot itself. As a result, the SearXNG engine then receives a CAPTCHA or is blocked by the search engine (the origin) in some other way. To avoid blocking, the requests from bots to SearXNG must also be blocked, this is the task of the limiter. To perform this task, the limiter uses the methods from the :py:obj:`searx.botdetection`. To enable the limiter activate: .. code:: yaml server: ... limiter: true # rate limit the number of request on the instance, block some bots and set the redis-url connection. Check the value, it depends on your redis DB (see :ref:`settings redis`), by example: .. code:: yaml redis: url: unix:///usr/local/searxng-redis/run/redis.sock?db=0 """ from typing import Optional, Tuple import flask from searx.botdetection import ( http_accept, http_accept_encoding, http_accept_language, http_connection, http_user_agent, ip_limit, ) def filter_request(request: flask.Request) -> Optional[Tuple[int, str]]: if request.path == '/healthz': return None for func in [ http_user_agent, ]: val = func.filter_request(request) if val is not None: return val if request.path == '/search': for func in [ http_accept, http_accept_encoding, http_accept_language, http_connection, http_user_agent, ip_limit, ]: val = func.filter_request(request) if val is not None: return val return None