# Demo Online Engine — SearXNG Documentation (2025.6.29+60be0f453)

# Demo Online Engine

Within this module we implement a demo online engine. Do not look to close to the implementation, its just a simple example which queries The Art Institute of Chicago

To get in use of this demo engine add the following entry to your engines list in `settings.yml`:

    - name: my online engine
      engine: demo_online
      shortcut: demo
      disabled: false

searx.engines.demo_online.init(engine_settings)

  Initialization of the (online) engine. If no initialization is needed, drop this init function.

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

  Build up the `params` for the online request. In this example we build a URL to fetch images from artic.edu

searx.engines.demo_online.response(resp) → EngineResults

  Parse out the result items from the response. In this example we parse the response from api.artic.edu and filter out all images.