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| author | Brock Vojkovic <git@vojk.au> | 2026-03-06 22:40:44 +0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2026-03-06 15:40:44 +0100 |
| commit | 68ff08f2244c6fa9e95255eb6733c157be2f46a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 59cbe50ff98dc9cb60f83f87c48c03cbcc2d9e4b /searx/webadapter.py | |
| parent | c7ba2158f9062f8f5ee3b9f72b5da61d3370ad23 (diff) | |
[mod] drop fasttext-predict (#5795)
Removes the `fasttext-predict` dependency and the language detection code.
If a user now selects `auto` for the search language, the detected language now
falls back directly to the `Accept-Language` header sent by the browser (which was already the fallback when fasttext returned no result).
- fasttext's [language detection is unreliable](https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4195) for some languages, especially short search queries, and in particular for queries containing proper names which is a common case.
- `fasttext-predict` consumes [significant memory](https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1969#issuecomment-1345366676) without offering users much real value.
- the upstream fasttext project was archived by Meta in 2024
- users already have two better alternatives: the `Accept-Language` header and the search-syntax language prefix (e.g. `:fr` or `:de`).
Related: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4195
Closes: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/5790
Diffstat (limited to 'searx/webadapter.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | searx/webadapter.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/searx/webadapter.py b/searx/webadapter.py index a05d1627c..f1924dd4c 100644 --- a/searx/webadapter.py +++ b/searx/webadapter.py @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ from searx.query import RawTextQuery from searx.engines import categories, engines from searx.search.models import SearchQuery, EngineRef from searx.preferences import Preferences, is_locked -from searx.utils import detect_language # remove duplicate queries. @@ -233,9 +232,7 @@ def get_search_query_from_webapp( 4. string with the *selected locale* of the query About language/locale: if the client selects the alias ``auto`` the - ``SearchQuery`` object is build up by the :py:obj:`detected language - <searx.utils.detect_language>`. If language recognition does not have a - match the language preferred by the :py:obj:`Preferences.client` is used. + language preferred by the :py:obj:`Preferences.client` is used. If client does not have a preference, the default ``all`` is used. The *selected locale* in the tuple always represents the selected @@ -267,8 +264,7 @@ def get_search_query_from_webapp( selected_locale = query_lang if query_lang == 'auto': - query_lang = detect_language(query, threshold=0.8, only_search_languages=True) - query_lang = query_lang or preferences.client.locale_tag or 'all' + query_lang = preferences.client.locale_tag or 'all' if not is_locked('categories') and raw_text_query.specific: # if engines are calculated from query, |