searxng/searxng

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

38.4k stars · 3.5k forks · Python

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 22 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 66
Human commits, 90 days: 155
Human commits, 365 days: 603
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 27%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 22
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 8 hours

Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 83% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 5 hours.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 365 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 3
Contributors: 283

Top committers

Bnyro: 50% of commits
return42: 21% of commits
vojkovic: 13% of commits
inetol: 5% of commits
Austin-Olacsi: 1% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jan 16, 2022 to Jan 17, 2022: about 35 more stars than usual, peak 22 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 17, 2022 to Apr 18, 2022: about 28 more stars than usual, peak 21 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 2, 2022 to Jun 2, 2022: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 1, 2022 to Jul 19, 2022: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 238 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 7, 2023 to Sep 11, 2023: about 163 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 4, 2024 to Apr 19, 2024: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 337 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
May 23, 2024 to May 30, 2024: about 542 more stars than usual, peak 171 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 24, 2024 to Jun 25, 2024: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 139 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 17, 2024 to Nov 20, 2024: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 16, 2025 to Jan 17, 2025: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 31, 2026 to Jun 5, 2026: about 310 more stars than usual, peak 158 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 3, 2026 to Jul 5, 2026: about 203 more stars than usual, peak 154 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

7 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: searxng/searxng

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 14 hours ago · method 2026.10.2