SearXNG in Rust
metadata-search-engine-rs A SearXNG-style metadata search engine written in Rust. Fans out queries to multiple search engines concurrently, scrapes their HTML results, deduplicates by normalized URL, and ranks using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF). Run them manually to verify HTML selectors still work against the real sites.
- ▪metadata-search-engine-rs A SearXNG-style metadata search engine written in Rust.
- ▪Fans out queries to multiple search engines concurrently, scrapes their HTML results, deduplicates by normalized URL, and ranks using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF).
- ▪Run them manually to verify HTML selectors still work against the real sites.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:41:40 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-03T17:25:44.992Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-03T17:25:44.992Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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metadata-search-engine-rs A SearXNG-style metadata search engine written in Rust. Fans out queries to multiple search engines concurrently, scrapes their HTML results, deduplicates by normalized URL, and ranks using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF). How it works A search request arrives at GET /search?q=<query> The query is sent concurrently to DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, and Yahoo via reqwest Each engine parses the HTML response with scraper (CSS selectors over Mozilla's html5ever) Results are deduplicated by normalized URL (tracking params stripped, locale prefixes removed, query params sorted) Duplicate URLs are merged and scored with RRF (score = Σ 1/(60 + rank) across engines) — pages returned by multiple engines rank higher The top results are returned as JSON Requirements Rust 1.75+…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.