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authorMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>2022-03-25 10:23:15 +0100
committerMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>2022-03-25 11:26:10 +0100
commit37493b0a1ea8bfede427e4d68c2a17dfdb8a6078 (patch)
tree526c7a760a4b2f50b58da5b2af530a985f48092b /searx/plugins
parent16aa731053f6ff90e649939ae30b8ad74f106fef (diff)
[doc] add some documentation about the limiter plugin (and redis)
Requested-by: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/993#discussioncomment-2396914 Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
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-rw-r--r--searx/plugins/limiter.py4
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diff --git a/searx/plugins/limiter.py b/searx/plugins/limiter.py
index 6accf2c1c..c3ec64283 100644
--- a/searx/plugins/limiter.py
+++ b/searx/plugins/limiter.py
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
# pyright: basic
"""Some bot protection / rate limitation
+To monitore rate limits and protect privacy the IP addresses are getting stored
+with a hash so the limiter plugin knows who to block. A redis database is
+needed to store the hash values.
+
Enable the plugin in ``settings.yml``:
- ``server.limiter: true``