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<h1>Plugins<a class="headerlink" href="#plugins" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Plugins can extend/replace functionality of various components inside
searx.</p>
<div class="section" id="example-plugin-py">
<h2>example_plugin.py<a class="headerlink" href="#example-plugin-py" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="code python highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'Example plugin'</span>
<span class="n">description</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'This plugin extends the suggestions with the word "example"'</span>
<span class="n">default_on</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">False</span> <span class="c1"># disable by default</span>
<span class="n">js_dependencies</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">tuple</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="c1"># optional, list of static js files</span>
<span class="n">css_dependencies</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">tuple</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="c1"># optional, list of static css files</span>
<span class="c1"># attach callback to the post search hook</span>
<span class="c1"># request: flask request object</span>
<span class="c1"># ctx: the whole local context of the post search hook</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">post_search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ctx</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">ctx</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'search'</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">suggestions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'example'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">True</span>
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<h2>Currently implemented plugin entry points (a.k.a hooks)<a class="headerlink" href="#currently-implemented-plugin-entry-points-a-k-a-hooks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Pre search hook (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pre_search</span></code>)</li>
<li>Post search hook (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">post_search</span></code>)</li>
<li>Result hook (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on_result</span></code>) (is called if a new result is added (see
https_rewrite plugin))</li>
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<p>Feel free to add more hooks to the code if it is required by a plugin.</p>
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<h2>TODO<a class="headerlink" href="#todo" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Better documentation</li>
<li>More hooks</li>
<li>search hook (is called while searx is requesting results (for
example: things like math-solver), the different hooks are running
parallel)</li>
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