Observed arrival · 2026-10-03
Onionscope: Tor metasearch across 45+ onion engines
Onionscope presents a Tor-routed metasearch interface that combines results from onion search engines, with controls for engine coverage and search time.
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⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
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ƒJS
- For
- Researchers searching the Tor network
- Worth noticing
- The interface offers a 15-, 20-, or 30-second time budget and says it uses one Tor circuit per search engine.
Field notes
The interface exposes result-count choices, an option to include 23 experimental engines, and three time budgets. The page describes routing each engine query through its own Tor circuit and says it fetches search-engine pages rather than the sites in the results. It also advertises a JSON API for teams with their own rate limits; the extracted page does not show returned results.
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