diff --git a/searx/engines/asksteem.py b/searx/engines/asksteem.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c3aa7ff6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/engines/asksteem.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+"""
+ Asksteem (general)
+
+ @website     https://asksteem.com/
+ @provide-api yes
+
+ @using-api   yes
+ @results     JSON (https://github.com/Hoxly/asksteem-docs/wiki)
+ @stable      yes
+ @parse       url, title, content
+"""
+
+from json import loads
+from searx.url_utils import urlencode
+
+# engine dependent config
+categories = ['general']
+paging = True
+language_support = False
+disabled = True
+
+# search-url
+search_url = 'https://api.asksteem.com/search?{params}'
+result_url = 'https://steemit.com/@{author}/{title}'
+
+
+# do search-request
+def request(query, params):
+    url = search_url.format(params=urlencode({'q': query, 'pg': params['pageno']}))
+    params['url'] = url
+    return params
+
+# get response from search-request
+def response(resp):
+    json = loads(resp.text)
+
+    results = []
+
+    for result in json.get('results', []):
+        results.append({'url': result_url.format(author=result['author'], title=result['permlink']),
+                        'title': result['title'],
+                        'content': result['summary']})
+    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 3903bbf1..6db5aea7 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ engines:
     categories : science
     timeout : 4.0
 
+  - name : asksteem
+    engine : asksteem
+    shortcut : as
+
   - name : base
     engine : base
     shortcut : bs