SoN packaging thegreenweb code as Searx plugin

[efim]

What needs to be packaged:

• file "searx/plugins/only_show_green_results.py" + init for plugins

The branch ca-green-plugin is lagging behind Searx master by a lot

Searx now has some documentation on setting up "external" plugins: https://searx.github.io/searx/dev/plugins.html

And there's an example https://github.com/asciimoo/searx_external_plugin_example

Maybe there's a good way to have general solution that would allow easy development of external plugins with flake

[efim]

Outline of the problem:

• Developing external plugin probably needs a Searx installation to test it easiest way would be to develop in the fork of the searx then flake might be for this forked repo and take only outlined plugin files to be added & initialized in the nixpkgs provided Searx installation
• Maybe flake could be written for the repo that would be structured like the example external plugin https://github.com/asciimoo/searx_external_plugin_example but I don't yet understand how it's installed & how to provide running Searx instance for running & testing (with nix module ?)
• Maybe no need to have solution for "adding plugins to Searx" and having flake that allows to deploy "TheGreenWebFoundation plugin + Searx" as a monolith is good enough, but it seems hacky and not quite useful

@gytis-ivaskevicius do you know of any projects in nixpkgs that have similar setup - allowing separate projects to be inserted as plugins, with these plugins being pakcaged with nix also?

[efim]

While looking for other external plugins for Searx I found separate repository that's propably setting up "thegreenwebfoundation" work as a 'external plugin'

• https://github.com/return42/tgwf-searx-plugins

it contains some additonal development, maybe it is a great candidate for the packaging

other repos that mention Searx & plugin seem to be plugins for /other/ projects that integrate searx into them (i.e not python code for Searx)

• https://github.com/scottwallacesh/cerebro-searx
• https://github.com/yolateng0/Searx_Plugin_Firefox
• https://github.com/tehtbl/local-searx-firefox-plugin

maybe this one is for Searx, but I'm not sure

• https://github.com/Viddla/searx-viddla/blob/master/viddla.py

There's discussion between TGWF developer & Searx team, will try to figure out what's current stance of Searx on plugins https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/1881

it seems that right now it's hard to find other solutions written as searx plugins

[gytis-ivaskevicius]

We usually have feature flags for optional features as such. Here an example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg-full/default.nix