This release came around a little faster than normal, but still has some pretty worthwhile new features, improvements, and fixes.
Features/Improvements
- Farside integration
- This is a new service (developed by me) that provides a few new benefits that didn't quite fit into Whoogle itself, namely:
- "Smart" redirecting to available/working instances of alternative frontends like Nitter, Bibliogram, etc
- Allows quickly jumping to new Whoogle instances to resume your search if the one you're using is blocked
- All of your config settings should be parameterized in the generated Farside URL
- Switching to a valid Searx instance if your instance is blocked and there aren't any other Whoogle instances available (or you just feel like switching to Searx)
- Evenly distributing traffic to Nitter/Bibliogram/Libreddit instances rather than pooling users on popular instances and creating problems for the maintainer of the instance
- This is a new service (developed by me) that provides a few new benefits that didn't quite fit into Whoogle itself, namely:
- Scribe replacements for Medium links
- New environment variables:
WHOOGLE_MINIMALto declutter the result page and only return "regular" result cardsWHOOGLE_RESULTS_PER_PAGEto set the number of results per page (wow who would've guessed!)WHOOGLE_AUTOCOMPLETEdefaults to "on", but can be set to0to turn off search suggestions
- Search terms are now bold in search results
- Support DDG bangs with the
!at the end (for short-style bangs) - Improved NoJS link formatting in results
- Instance now shows an "Update Available" message if the instance is not using the latest release
- Whoogle can now be deployed via Helm chart (#522)
- Improved public instance session management
- This is a dramatic improvement to how user sessions were handled previously. The new approach enforces that each new user to a Whoogle instance inherits an immutable set of default configuration parameters. Whoogle then validates if the user is allowing cookies to be set by forwarding them to a
/sessionURL that checks for changes to their session ID. If the ID has changed, then the user likely has cookies disabled, and they are blocked from changing their config settings. - This should help immensely on public instances where the default config was previously always changing.
- This is a dramatic improvement to how user sessions were handled previously. The new approach enforces that each new user to a Whoogle instance inherits an immutable set of default configuration parameters. Whoogle then validates if the user is allowing cookies to be set by forwarding them to a
- The "Country" config setting can now be used to emulate a search in that specified country
- Very useful for public instances that are hosted outside of your geographic location, but you still want relevant results for the country you live in
New Translations
- Russian
And here's a bulleted list of what's changed and who contributed! Thank you to everyone who has helped out. I really appreciate it.
What's Changed
- Implement scribe.rip replacement for medium.com by @vacom13 in #463
- Fix typo by @fredster33 in #478
- feat: block title or url by regex by @YadominJinta in #473
- Feature to show clients ip address by @vacom13 in #469
- Allow setting Accept-Language header by @vacom13 in #483
- Add WHOOGLE_RESULTS_PER_PAGE by @DUOLabs333 in #486
- Add a "Minimal Mode" by @DUOLabs333 in #485
- Bold search query in results by @DUOLabs333 in #487
- Ignore target_words that are not alphanumeric by @DUOLabs333 in #496
- DDG style Bangs now support Bangs at the End by @vacom13 in #503
- Change "skip bolding" check to regex to fix some edge cases by @DUOLabs333 in #500
- Improve formatting with NoJS enabled by @gripped in #509
- Remove css by @gripped in #511
- Add Update Available warning by @vacom13 in #517
- Fixes internal server error by @fabianschilling in #521
- Added another public instance by @KokoTheBest in #512
- New public instance added by @Albonycal in #525
- feat: Simple Helm Chart by @rblaine95 in #522
- Add Japanese translation by @gnuhead-chieb in #528
- Fix for issue #299 by @jacr13 in #534
- Improve public instance session management by @benbusby in #480
- Add Russian translation by @dsrev in #552
- Remove dead instance & add my onion instance by @alefvanoon in #555
- docs(instance): search.sethforprivacy.com by @curbengh in #562
- Currency Conversion by @vacom13 in #536
- Farside integration by @benbusby in #560
New Contributors
- @vacom13 made their first contribution in #463
- @YadominJinta made their first contribution in #473
- @DUOLabs333 made their first contribution in #486
- @fabianschilling made their first contribution in #521
- @rblaine95 made their first contribution in #522
- @gnuhead-chieb made their first contribution in #528
- @dsrev made their first contribution in #552
- @curbengh made their first contribution in #562
Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0