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LibreY

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Search Engines ★ 322 stars Easy setup AGPL-3.0

LibreY is a free and open-source metasearch engine that aggregates results from multiple sources without tracking users or showing ads. It is a lightweight, self-hostable front end for private web searching.

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Key features

  • Aggregates multiple sources
  • No tracking or ads
  • Lightweight and fast
  • Instance federation

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Written in PHP

Is LibreY secure?

OSV.dev lists 2 published advisories for LibreY. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2023-41054, published 2023-09-04 (1136 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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