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authorMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>2022-03-25 17:08:32 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-03-25 17:08:32 +0100
commitef8af285a22db78a3d28d0f13228f0487ce9fe8b (patch)
tree5dfc0ea11fec05833e9cd01beec32fc846940b5e /searx
parent2151da3716bca301e1b91061ad5d77f6ad2fa29a (diff)
parent37493b0a1ea8bfede427e4d68c2a17dfdb8a6078 (diff)
Merge pull request #994 from return42/add-limiter-redis-doc
[doc] add some documentation about the limiter plugin (and redis)
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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``