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@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ My SearxNG instance on [searx.thefloatinglab.world](https://searx.thefloatinglab
Despite the deployment of botlists, limiters, and manually blocking the most obvious bots, it still remained an endless battle. Most of the time my instance was useless. So either I had to give up on this project, or find a way to block the bots and let the genuine users through. A captcha system might not be popular, but on the other hand, a useless site is well, pretty useless.
By combining the captcha system with a cookie, only once in 90 days the user has to solve the captcha. A small price to pay for access to a wonderfull instance!
![picture](https://git.thefloatinglab.world/TheFloatingLab/SearxNG-Captcha/raw/branch/main/captcha.jpeg?raw=1)
# Features
- No modification of the SearxNG code is necessary, the captcha system runs entirely within Nginx.
- The captcha, once solved, stays valid for 90 days.
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- Everything is script based, no compilation is necessary.
- In an emergency, all existing cookies can be invalidated at once.
![picture](https://git.thefloatinglab.world/TheFloatingLab/SearxNG-Captcha/raw/branch/main/captcha.jpg?raw=1)
# Installation
This guide is not a complete walk through. I show you my code and how I have done it. Some tweaking might be necessary, and the locations of files on your system might be different than on mine.
I have not made an attempt to add subdirectories to this git, so you have to download the files and place them manually in the correct locations.