Yes! I already have an issue for that: https://codeberg.org/wazaby/searloc/issues/21

I have limited time, so at the moment I am more focused on features, but I will definitely do it. I also want to create a self hosted guide in the repo wiki.

Yes it’s an alternative, so it’s the same end goal. But there is some differences:

• Settings: In searloc you can set lang, theme and those settings are passed to the searxng instance
• Bangs: Bang are handled localy (directly by the searloc js in your borwser), neocities forward your bangs to an instance
• Automatic instances update: it seems that neocities instances are the same since 2024, searloc is building it’s pool daily from searx.space. And from what I can see in the neocities source they have only 12 instances in there pool. It’s not enough in my opinion.
• The retry: A real pain point for is that sometimes even with the quality check i’ve added to choose the instance pool, an instance doesn’t gives me the results I am waiting for. So I implemented a retry (it’s opt in so you need to enable it in the settings). If the results are not good enough, just type !! and it will run the search again on another random instances.