From 37493b0a1ea8bfede427e4d68c2a17dfdb8a6078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Heiser Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:23:15 +0100 Subject: [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 --- searx/plugins/limiter.py | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'searx/plugins/limiter.py') 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`` -- cgit v1.2.3