SearXNG-MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides a bridge between AI assistants and SearXNG, a privacy-respecting metasearch engine.

Features

• Search Tool: Perform web searches through SearXNG with full support for:

  • Multiple search categories (general, images, videos, news, music, files, etc.)
  • Specific engine selection
  • Language filtering
  • Pagination
  • Time range filtering
  • Safe search settings

• Engine Discovery: List all available search engines supported by your SearXNG instance

• Transport Support:

  • Streamable HTTP transport (recommended for web integrations)
  • Standard I/O transport (for CLI integrations)
  • Cloudflare Worker transport

Prerequisites

You should enable JSON model in your SearXNG instance. Locate the search.formats configuration in your settings.yml and includes json:

search:
  formats:
    - html
    - json

Configuration

The server can be configured using environment variables:

| Variable | Description | Default | | -------- | ----------- | ------- | | SEARXNG_URL | URL of your SearXNG instance | http://localhost:8080 | | PORT | Port for HTTP transport | 3000 | | TRANSPORT_MODE | Transport mode: http or stdio | http |

Usage

HTTP Transport (Streamable HTTP)

# Start the server
TRANSPORT_MODE=http SEARXNG_URL=https://your-searxng-instance.com npm start

# The server will listen on http://localhost:3000/mcp

Stdio Transport

# Start with stdio transport
SEARXNG_URL=https://your-searxng-instance.com npm start

MCP Client Configuration

For Claude Desktop or other MCP-compatible clients, add to your configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@bs-mcps/searxng"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "https://your-searxng-instance.com",
      }
    }
  }
}

Cloudflare Worker Transport

You can deploy the MCP server as a Cloudflare Worker.

To deploy, you can fork this repository and then create a new Worker linked to your fork.

Or, you can simply click the button below to deploy directly to Cloudflare:

Required Environment Variables

| Variable | Description | | -------- | ----------- | | SEARXNG_URL | URL of your SearXNG instance |

[!NOTE]

Cloudflare Worker transport does not support the MCP Protocol Version 2025-11-25 yet, see cloudflare/agents#719.

Available Tools

| Tool | Description | | ---- | ----------- | | search | Perform a web search using SearXNG | | get_engines | Get all available search engines supported by the SearXNG instance |

search

Perform a web search using SearXNG.

Parameters:

• query (required): The search query
• categories: Array of categories (e.g., ["general", "images"])
• engines: Array of specific engines (e.g., ["google", "duckduckgo"])
• language: Language code (e.g., "en")
• pageno: Page number for pagination
• time_range: Time filter ("day", "week", "month", "year")
• safesearch: Safe search level (0, 1, 2)

get_engines

Get all available search engines supported by the SearXNG instance.

No parameters required.

Copyright Notice

Copyright [2025] [BrandonStudio]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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