Merge pull request #1140 from return42/limiter-doc

[docs] document the missing server:limiter setting
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@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ Global Settings
port: 8888
bind_address: "127.0.0.1" # address to listen on
secret_key: "ultrasecretkey" # change this!
limiter: false
image_proxy: false # proxying image results through SearXNG
default_http_headers:
X-Content-Type-Options : nosniff
@ -194,12 +195,16 @@ Global Settings
``secret_key`` : ``$SEARXNG_SECRET``
Used for cryptography purpose.
``limiter`` :
Rate limit the number of request on the instance, block some bots. The
:ref:`limiter plugin` requires a :ref:`settings redis` database.
``image_proxy`` :
Allow your instance of SearXNG of being able to proxy images. Uses memory space.
.. _HTTP headers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers
``default_http_headers``:
``default_http_headers`` :
Set additional HTTP headers, see `#755 <https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/715>`__
@ -229,7 +234,7 @@ Global Settings
``theme_args.simple_style``:
Style of simple theme: ``auto``, ``light``, ``dark``
``query_in_title``:
``query_in_title`` :
When true, the result page's titles contains the query it decreases the
privacy, since the browser can records the page titles.
@ -320,7 +325,7 @@ Communication with search engines.
Suffix to the user-agent SearXNG uses to send requests to others engines. If an
engine wish to block you, a contact info here may be useful to avoid that.
``keepalive_expiry``:
``keepalive_expiry`` :
Number of seconds to keep a connection in the pool. By default 5.0 seconds.
.. _httpx proxies: https://www.python-httpx.org/advanced/#http-proxying
@ -480,7 +485,7 @@ engine is shown. Most of the options have a default value or even are optional.
``display_error_messages`` : default ``true``
When an engine returns an error, the message is displayed on the user interface.
``network``: optional
``network`` : optional
Use the network configuration from another engine.
In addition, there are two default networks: