diff --git a/donate.php b/donate.php
index 4653ba4..1426dee 100644
--- a/donate.php
+++ b/donate.php
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@
     <div class="donate-container">
       <!-- librex dev -->
       <h2>
-        Donate to the original developer of Libre<span class="Y">X</span>, a
-        project LibreY tries to improve.
+<?php printftext("donate_original_developer", "Libre<span class=\"Y\">X</span>")?>
       </h2>
 
       <div class="flexbox-column">
@@ -46,11 +45,9 @@
         <hr class="small-line" />
 
         <!-- librey dev -->
-        <h2>
-          Donate to the person that forked LibreX into Libre<span class="Y"
-            >Y</span
-          >
-        </h2>
+      <h2>
+<?php printftext("donate_fork", "Libre<span class=\"Y\">X</span>")?>
+      </h2>
 
         <div class="qr-box">
           <div class="inner-wrap">
diff --git a/engines/ahmia/hidden_service.php b/engines/ahmia/hidden_service.php
index a547078..ad5ffda 100644
--- a/engines/ahmia/hidden_service.php
+++ b/engines/ahmia/hidden_service.php
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
                 array_push($results,
                     array (
-                        "title" => $title ? htmlspecialchars($title) : "No description provided",
+                        "title" => $title ? htmlspecialchars($title) : TEXTS["result_no_description"],
                         "url" =>  htmlspecialchars($url),
                         // base_url is to be removed in the future, see #47
                         "base_url" => htmlspecialchars(get_base_url($url)),
diff --git a/engines/bittorrent/merge.php b/engines/bittorrent/merge.php
index 08bd0f7..3de1a69 100644
--- a/engines/bittorrent/merge.php
+++ b/engines/bittorrent/merge.php
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
             echo "<div class=\"text-result-container\">";
 
             if (empty($results)) {
-                echo "<p>There are no results. Please try different keywords!</p>";
+                echo "<p>" . TEXTS["failure_empty"] . "</p>";
                 return;
             }
 
diff --git a/engines/librex/fallback.php b/engines/librex/fallback.php
index d3b6c34..4e22173 100644
--- a/engines/librex/fallback.php
+++ b/engines/librex/fallback.php
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 
         return array(
             "error" => array(
-                "message" => "No results found. Unable to fallback to other instances."
+                "message" => TEXTS["failure_fallback"]
             )
         );
     }
diff --git a/engines/text/duckduckgo.php b/engines/text/duckduckgo.php
index da35f93..ae80446 100644
--- a/engines/text/duckduckgo.php
+++ b/engines/text/duckduckgo.php
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?php
     class DuckDuckGoRequest extends EngineRequest {
-        function get_request_url()
-        {
+        public function get_request_url() {
             $query_encoded = str_replace("%22", "\"", urlencode($this->query));
             $results = array();
 
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@
                         // base_url is to be removed in the future, see #47
                         "base_url" => htmlspecialchars(get_base_url($url)),
                         "description" =>  $description == null ?
-                                          "No description was provided for this site." :
+                                          TEXTS["result_no_description"] :
                                           htmlspecialchars($description->textContent)
                     )
                 );
diff --git a/engines/text/google.php b/engines/text/google.php
index 814eb47..8435743 100644
--- a/engines/text/google.php
+++ b/engines/text/google.php
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
                         // base_url is to be removed in the future, see #47
                         "base_url" => htmlspecialchars(get_base_url($url)),
                         "description" =>  $description == null ?
-                                          "No description was provided for this site." :
+                                          TEXTS["result_no_description"] :
                                           htmlspecialchars($description->textContent)
                     )
                 );
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 
             if (empty($results) && !str_contains($response, "Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network.")) {
                 $results["error"] = array(
-                    "message" => "There are no results. Please try different keywords!"
+                    "message" => TEXTS["failure_empty"]
                 );
             }
 
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 92df811..288eb54 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
                 <input type="hidden" name="t" value="0"/>
                 <input type="submit" class="hide"/>
                 <div class="search-button-wrapper">
-                    <button name="t" value="0" type="submit">Search with LibreY</button>
-                    <button name="t" value="3" type="submit">Search torrents with LibreY</button>
+                <button name="t" value="0" type="submit"><?php printtext("search_button"); ?></button>
+                    <button name="t" value="3" type="submit"><?php printtext("torrent_search_button"); ?></button>
                 </div>
         </form>
 
diff --git a/instances.php b/instances.php
index 0ecffc5..ad31932 100644
--- a/instances.php
+++ b/instances.php
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
                 list_instances($librey_instances);
             ?>
 
-            <p>The following instances are running the older <a href="https://github.com/hnhx/librex">LibreX</a>:</p>
+                <p><?php printtext("instances_librex", "<a href=\"https://github.com/hnhx/librex\">LibreX</a>")?>:</p>
             <?php
                 list_instances($librex_instances);
             ?>
diff --git a/locale/en.php b/locale/en.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5d9592
--- /dev/null
+++ b/locale/en.php
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+<?php
+
+return array(
+    "page_title" => "LibreY search",
+    "search_button" => "Search with LibreY",
+    "torrent_search_button" => "Search torrents with LibreY",
+
+    "source_code_link" => "Source",
+    "instances_link" => "Instances",
+    "settings_link" => "Settings",
+    "api_link" => "API",
+    "donate_link" => "Donate ❤️",
+
+    "latest_commit" => "Latest commit: %s",
+
+    "category_general" => "General",
+    "category_images" => "Images",
+    "category_videos" => "Videos",
+    "category_torrents" => "Torrents",
+    "category_tor" => "Tor",
+
+    "feature_disabled" => "The host has disabled this feature :C",
+
+    "settings_title" => "Settings",
+    "settings_theme" => "Theme",
+    "settings_special_disabled" => "Disable special queries (e.g.: currency conversion)",
+
+    "settings_frontends" => "Privacy friendly frontends",
+    "settings_frontends_description" => "For an example if you want to view YouTube without getting spied on, click on \"Invidious\", find the instance that is most suitable for you then paste it in (correct format: https://example.com)",
+    "settings_frontends_disable" => "Disable frontends",
+
+    "settings_search_settings" => "Search settings",
+    "settings_language" => "Language",
+
+    "settings_number_of_results" => "Number of results per page",
+
+    "settings_safe_search" => "Safe search",
+    "settings_save" => "Save",
+    "settings_reset" => "Reset",
+
+
+    "failure_fallback" => "No results found. Unable to fallback to other instances.",
+    "failure_empty" => "No results found. Please try different keywords!",
+    "result_no_description" => "No description was provided for this site.",
+
+    "instances_librex" => "The following instances are running the older %s",
+
+    "donate_original_developer" => "Donate to the original developer of %s, a
+        project LibreY tries to improve.",
+    "donate_fork" => "Donate to the person that forked LibreX into %s"
+);
+
+?>
diff --git a/locale/localization.php b/locale/localization.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e40791
--- /dev/null
+++ b/locale/localization.php
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<?php
+
+function printtext($key) {
+    echo TEXTS[$key];
+}
+
+function printftext() {
+    $argv = func_get_args();
+    $key = array_shift($argv);
+    vprintf(TEXTS[$key], $argv);
+}
+
+// default to language "en"
+$locale = "en";
+
+$accept_language_header = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
+
+if ($accept_language_header) {
+    foreach(explode(",", explode(";", $accept_language_header)[0]) as $header_language) {
+        if (file_exists("locale/$header_language.php")) {
+            $locale = $header_language;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+define("TEXTS", require "locale/$locale.php");
+?>
diff --git a/misc/footer.php b/misc/footer.php
index 9b1b179..af063d4 100644
--- a/misc/footer.php
+++ b/misc/footer.php
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 <div class="footer-container">
     <a href="./">LibreY</a>
-    <a href="https://github.com/Ahwxorg/librey/" target="_blank">Source</a>
-    <a href="./instances.php" target="_blank">Instances</a>
-    <a href="./settings.php">Settings</a>
-    <a href="./api.php" target="_blank">API</a>
-    <a href="./donate.php">Donate ❤️</a>
+    <a href="https://github.com/Ahwxorg/librey/" target="_blank"><?php printtext("source_code_link");?></a>
+    <a href="./instances.php" target="_blank"><?php printtext("instances_link");?></a>
+    <a href="./settings.php"><?php printtext("settings_link");?></a>
+    <a href="./api.php" target="_blank"><?php printtext("api_link");?></a>
+    <a href="./donate.php"><?php printtext("donate_link");?></a>
 </div>
 <div class="git-container">
     <?php
         $hash = file_get_contents(".git/refs/heads/main");
-        echo "<a href=\"https://github.com/Ahwxorg/librey/commit/$hash\" target=\"_blank\">Latest commit: $hash</a>";
+        echo "<a href=\"https://github.com/Ahwxorg/librey/commit/$hash\" target=\"_blank\">" . printftext("latest_commit", $hash) . "</a>";
     ?>
 </div>
 </body>
diff --git a/misc/header.php b/misc/header.php
index b7944bf..9a8ae7b 100644
--- a/misc/header.php
+++ b/misc/header.php
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?php require "locale/localization.php"; ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html >
 <html lang="en">
     <head>
@@ -6,7 +7,7 @@
         <meta name="description" content="A privacy respecting meta search engine."/>
         <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer"/>
         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="static/css/styles.css"/>
-        <link title="LibreY search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="opensearch.xml?method=POST" rel="search"/>
+        <link title="<?php printtext("page_title"); ?>" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="opensearch.xml?method=POST" rel="search"/>
         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php
 $theme = $_REQUEST["theme"] ?? trim(htmlspecialchars($_COOKIE["theme"] ?? "dark"));
                 echo "static/css/" . $theme . ".css";
diff --git a/misc/search_engine.php b/misc/search_engine.php
index 6021ee6..a032640 100644
--- a/misc/search_engine.php
+++ b/misc/search_engine.php
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
 
             case 3:
                 if ($opts->disable_bittorent_search) {
-                    echo "<p class=\"text-result-container\">The host disabled this feature! :C</p>";
+                    echo "<p class=\"text-result-container\">" . TEXTS["feature_disabled"] . "</p>";
                     break;
                 }
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 
             case 4:
                 if ($opts->disable_hidden_service_search) {
-                    echo "<p class=\"text-result-container\">The host disabled this feature! :C</p>";
+                    echo "<p class=\"text-result-container\">" . TEXTS["feature_disabled"] . "</p>";
                     break;
                 }
                 require "engines/ahmia/hidden_service.php";
diff --git a/search.php b/search.php
index 8fa24d7..0f71087 100644
--- a/search.php
+++ b/search.php
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 <title>
 <?php
     echo $opts->query;
-?> - LibreY</title>
+    ?> - <?php printtext("page_title");?></title>
 </head>
     <body>
         <form class="sub-search-container" method="get" autocomplete="off">
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
                             continue;
                         }
 
-                        echo "<a " . (($category_index == $opts->type) ? "class=\"active\" " : "") . "href=\"./search.php?q=" . urlencode($opts->query) . "&p=0&t=" . $category_index . "\"><img src=\"static/images/" . $category . "_result.png\" alt=\"" . $category . " result\" />" . ucfirst($category)  . "</a>";
+                        echo "<a " . (($category_index == $opts->type) ? "class=\"active\" " : "") . "href=\"./search.php?q=" . urlencode($opts->query) . "&p=0&t=" . $category_index . "\"><img src=\"static/images/" . $category . "_result.png\" alt=\"" . $category . " result\" />" . TEXTS["category_$category"]  . "</a>";
                     }
                 ?>
             </div>
diff --git a/settings.php b/settings.php
index 9baeacd..44be838 100644
--- a/settings.php
+++ b/settings.php
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@
         require "misc/header.php";
 ?>
 
-    <title>LibreY - Settings</title>
+    <title>LibreY - <?php printtext("settings_title");?></title>
     </head>
     <body>
         <div class="misc-container">
             <h1>Settings</h1>
             <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" autocomplete="off">
               <div>
-                <label for="theme">Theme:</label>
+                <label for="theme"><?php printtext("settings_theme");?>:</label>
                 <select name="theme">
                 <?php
                     $themes = "<option value=\"dark\">Dark</option>
@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@
                 </select>
                 </div>
                 <div>
-                    <label>Disable special queries (e.g.: currency conversion)</label>
+                    <label><?php printtext("settings_special_disabled");?></label>
                     <input type="checkbox" name="disable_special" <?php echo $opts->disable_special ? "checked"  : ""; ?> >
                 </div>
 
-                <h2>Privacy friendly frontends</h2>
-                <p>For an example if you want to view YouTube without getting spied on, click on "Invidious", find the instance that is most suitable for you then paste it in (correct format: https://example.com)</p>
+                <h2><?php printtext("settings_frontends");?></h2>
+                <p><?php printtext("settings_frontends_description");?></p>
                 <div class="settings-textbox-container">
                       <?php
                            foreach($opts->frontends as $frontend => $data)
@@ -90,14 +90,14 @@
                       ?>
                 </div>
                 <div>
-                    <label>Disable frontends</label>
+                    <label><?php printtext("settings_frontends_disable");?></label>
                     <input type="checkbox" name="disable_frontends" <?php echo $opts->disable_frontends ? "checked"  : ""; ?> >
                 </div>
 
-                <h2>Search settings</h2>
+                <h2><?php printtext("settings_search_settings");?></h2>
                 <div class="settings-textbox-container">
                     <div>
-                        <span>Language</span>
+                        <span><?php printtext("settings_language");?></span>
                         <select name="language">
                         <?php
 
@@ -116,18 +116,18 @@
                         </select>
                     </div>
                     <div>
-                        <label>Number of results per page</label>
+                        <label><?php printtext("settings_number_of_results");?></label>
                         <input type="number" name="number_of_results" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($opts->number_of_results ?? "10") ?>" >
                     </div>
                 </div>
                 <div>
-                    <label>Safe search</label>
+                    <label><?php printtext("settings_safe_search");?></label>
                     <input type="checkbox" name="safe_search" <?php echo $opts->safe_search ? "checked"  : ""; ?> >
                 </div>
 
                 <div>
-                  <button type="submit" name="save" value="1">Save</button>
-                  <button type="submit" name="reset" value="1">Reset</button>
+                  <button type="submit" name="save" value="1"><?php printtext("settings_save");?></button>
+                  <button type="submit" name="reset" value="1"><?php printtext("settings_reset");?></button>
                 </div>
             </form>
         </div>