# Qwant — SearXNG Documentation (2025.6.29+60be0f453)

# Qwant

This engine uses the Qwant API (https://api.qwant.com/v3) to implement Qwant -Web, -News, -Images and -Videos. The API is undocumented but can be reverse engineered by reading the network log of https://www.qwant.com/ queries.

For Qwant’s web-search two alternatives are implemented:

- `web`: uses the `api_url` which returns a JSON structure

- `web-lite`: uses the `web_lite_url` which returns a HTML page

## Configuration

The engine has the following additional settings:

- `qwant_categ`

This implementation is used by different qwant engines in the settings.yml:

    - name: qwant
      qwant_categ: web-lite  # alternatively use 'web'
      ...
    - name: qwant news
      qwant_categ: news
      ...
    - name: qwant images
      qwant_categ: images
      ...
    - name: qwant videos
      qwant_categ: videos
      ...

## Implementations

searx.engines.qwant.max_page = 5

  5 pages maximum (`&p=5`): Trying to do more just results in an improper redirect

searx.engines.qwant.qwant_categ = None

  One of `web-lite` (or `web`), `news`, `images` or `videos`

searx.engines.qwant.api_url = 'https://api.qwant.com/v3/search/'

  URL of Qwant’s API (JSON)

searx.engines.qwant.web_lite_url = 'https://lite.qwant.com/'

  URL of Qwant-Lite (HTML)

searx.engines.qwant.request(query, params)

  Qwant search request

searx.engines.qwant.parse_web_lite(resp)

  Parse results from Qwant-Lite

searx.engines.qwant.parse_web_api(resp)

  Parse results from Qwant’s API