SearXNG Search
Connects to SearxNG privacy-focused search engines to provide web search capabilities for AI assistants. Lets you search the web without tracking while preserving context window space.
Perform privacy-preserving web searches via the SearXNG metasearch engine.
What it does
- Search the web through SearxNG instances
- Configure search parameters like result count and language
- Filter results by time range
- Get formatted search results optimized for LLMs
Best for
About SearXNG Search
SearXNG Search is a community-built MCP server published by secretiveshell that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Use SearXNG metasearch engine for private web searches, a great alternative to the Duck Duck Go search engine and browse It is categorized under search web. This server exposes 1 tool that AI clients can invoke during conversations and coding sessions.
How to install
You can install SearXNG Search in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport. This server supports remote connections over HTTP, so no local installation is required.
License
SearXNG Search is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
Tools (1)
search the web using searXNG. This will aggregate the results from google, bing, brave, duckduckgo and many others. Use this to find information on the web. Even if you do not have access to the internet, you can still use this tool to search the web.
MCP-searxng
An MCP server for connecting agentic systems to search systems via searXNG.
Tools
Search the web with SearXNG
Prompts
search(query: str) -> f"Searching for {query} using searXNG"
Usage
via uvx
- configure your client JSON like
{
"mcpServers": {
"searxng": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-searxng"
]
}
}
}
via git clone
- Add the server to claude desktop (the entrypoint is main.py)
Clone the repo and add this JSON to claude desktop
you can run this server with uvx mcp-searxng, or use a local copy of the repo
{
"mcpServers": {
"searxng": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--project",
"/absoloute/path/to/MCP-searxng/",
"run",
"/absoloute/path/to/MCP-searxng/mcp-searxng/main.py"
]
}
}
}
you will need to change the paths to match your environment
Custom SearXNG URL
-
set the environment variable
SEARXNG_URLto the URL of the searxng server (default ishttp://localhost:8080) -
run your MCP client and you should be able to search the web with searxng
Note: if you are using claude desktop make sure to kill the process (task manager or equivalent) before running the server again
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