Google always gives "Too many requests"

[johnnyggalt]

Hi,

Every search I perform against my local instance results in "too many requests" for the Google engine:

Relevant logs:

2025-01-14 01:51:45,267 WARNING:searx.network.google: HTTP Request failed: GET https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Draducanu%26hl%3Den-US%26lr%3Dlang_en%26cr%3DcountryUS%26ie%3Dutf8%26oe%3Dutf8%26filter%3D0%26start%3D0%26asearch%3Darc%26async%3Duse_ac%253Atrue%252C_fmt%253Aprog&hl=en-US&q=EgR1eAkTGLCGl7wGIjBjIll3oMMeGexN4FK7RLulYKB8hWXjKMh2-ygGDcMnTI67t2lHJ3QeMeGFhibKBysyAXJKGVNPUlJZX0FCVVNJVkVfTkVUX01FU1NBR0VaAUM

2025-01-14 01:51:45,336 WARNING:searx.engines.google: ErrorContext('searx/search/processors/online.py', 116, "response = req(params['url'], **request_args)", 'searx.exceptions.SearxEngineTooManyRequestsException', None, ('Too many request',)) False

2025-01-14 01:51:45,336 ERROR:searx.engines.google: Too many requests

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/search/processors/online.py", line 160, in search

    search_results = self._search_basic(query, params)

                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/search/processors/online.py", line 144, in _search_basic

    response = self._send_http_request(params)

               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/search/processors/online.py", line 116, in _send_http_request

    response = req(params['url'], **request_args)

               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/network/__init__.py", line 164, in get

    return request('get', url, **kwargs)

           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/network/__init__.py", line 95, in request

    return future.result(timeout)

           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 456, in result

    return self.__get_result()

           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 401, in __get_result

    raise self._exception

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/network/network.py", line 291, in request

    return await self.call_client(False, method, url, **kwargs)

           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/network/network.py", line 274, in call_client

    return self.patch_response(response, do_raise_for_httperror)

           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/network/network.py", line 245, in patch_response

    raise_for_httperror(response)

  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/network/raise_for_httperror.py", line 76, in raise_for_httperror

    raise SearxEngineTooManyRequestsException()

searx.exceptions.SearxEngineTooManyRequestsException: Too many request, suspended_time=3600

Interestingly, the URL in the log looks like a redirect URL rather than the original - not sure if that's a bug or not. If I copy the URL as-is into my browser I get the expected:

If I try only the first part of the URL shown in the "sorry" page, it works (trying the whole thing succeeds but downloads a text file in a format I don't understand):

What might be wrong here? I've tried turning the limiter off just in case, but I get the same behavior.

[johnnyggalt]

OK, I figured out what's happening. I'm running this on my NAS and it automatically routes through my VPN. If I try hitting Google locally with my VPN enabled I get:

If I run SearXNG on my dev machine with VPN disabled, I do get Google results:

I tried switching my VPN to a different server and then Google loaded, so it might be just that the server closest to me has a tainted reputation...? Perhaps a silly question and I know this is not really a SearXNG issue, but any suggestions on what to do here? Is my only option to use a different VPN server (or disable VPN altogether, which I won't do)?

[johnnyggalt]

The vast majority of my VPN's servers are marked as malicious by Google 😢 but I found a couple that are not. I switched my NAS to use that server (even though it's got quite the latency) and now the Google engine works as expected:

I'm honestly wondering if I should switch VPN providers at this point, but perhaps this is a common problem across all providers . . . if anyone has any thoughts, I'm eager to hear them.