Searx admin interface: manage your instance from your browser
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One of the biggest advantages of searx is being extremely customizable. But at first it can be daunting to newcomers.
A barrier of taking advantage of this feature is our ugly settings file which is sometimes hard to understand and edit.

To make self-hosting searx more accessible a new tool is introduced, called ``searx-admin``.
It is a web application which is capable of managing your instance and manipulating its settings via a web UI.
It aims to replace editing of ``settings.yml`` for less experienced administrators or people
who prefer graphical admin interfaces.

.. figure:: searx-admin-engines.png
    :scale: 50 %
    :alt: Screenshot of engine list
    :align: center
    :figclass: align-center
    
    Configuration page of engines


Since ``searx-admin`` acts as a supervisor for searx, we have decided to implement it
as a standalone tool instead of part of searx. Another reason for making it a standalone
tool is that the codebase and dependencies of searx should not grow because of a fully optional feature,
which does not affect existing instances.


Installation
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Installation guide can be found in the repository of searx-admin:
https://github.com/kvch/searx-admin#installation--usage

Acknowledgements
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This development was sponsored by `NLnet Foundation`_.

.. _NLnet Foundation: https://nlnet.nl/


| Happy hacking.
| kvch // 2017.08.22 21:25