#6619·searxng

Lazy-load results

Author: xieveCreated Sep 1, 2026Updated Sep 1, 2026
Labelsfrontendnew feature

I would like to implement a lazy-loading feature into SearXNG.

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I really like to have WolframAlpha enabled on all searches, but it takes ~5s. I've also recently set up a YaCy instance, and it relies heavily on lazy-loading itself, because search results from peers keep trickling in over ~10s. With the current implementation of YaCy in SearXNG, only the very first results are loaded - which afaict is just results from the local index, which is in turn just a small part of the distributed index. Thus the results are usually completely irrelevant. The results in YaCy's own interface are way better, if you're a little patient.

Describe the solution you'd like

  • Lazy loading would be completely optional
  • If enabled, a websocket connection would be established on page load
    • I'd use flask-uwsgi-websocket, since flask doesn't have any websocket abstractions built in, and low-level websocket handling is actually quite hard
  • Over this connection, new results could be supplied as HTML snippets (I'd probably embed the priority rating as a custom attribute)
  • On the client side, these results would be sorted in with a tiny bit of JS

Describe alternatives you've considered

A library or framework could be used, such as

However, I don't feel that this is in the spirit of this project.

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