python port

[pointhi]

probably we should port that little project from php to python/flask.

wiki artice for ideas

Advantages

• there are various bugs inside the crawler, which I couldn't figure out why it cannot process the instance (unknow online status). Probably thats an PHP problem
• with flask it is much easier to handle new pages :)
• with python/flask page generation is much cleaner/easier
• it is easier for searx-contributer also to contribute to searx_stats because of the same technology

  Disadvantages

• writing new code

[dalf]

I've started a Django version, using python 3 here : https://github.com/dalf/searx-stats2 Messy in many points, just a start.

CURL is used to fetch the instances status, which allow to have more details when there is an error.

The choice of Django allows to have a free administration to add / remove instance.

My idea is to test each (engine, instance) couple :

• to see if the result are consistant across instances
• to see if an engine doesn't work only for an instance