SearXNG Search MCP server

🔍 SearXNG MCP Server

Privacy-respecting web search for AI assistants — use an operator-controlled or trusted SearXNG instance with Claude, Cursor, and more.

An MCP server that integrates the SearXNG API, giving AI assistants web search capabilities.

✨ Featured in the GitHub MCP Registry.

Quick Start

You need an existing SearXNG instance with JSON search enabled. This project connects an MCP client to SearXNG; it does not install SearXNG. Use an instance you operate or trust. Start with the self-hosted or public-instance guide if needed.

Choose how to connect:

For clients using mcpServers JSON (such as Claude Desktop), add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-searxng"],
      "env": { "SEARXNG_URL": "https://search.example.com" }
    }
  }
}

Replace the example URL with your SearXNG base URL. Other clients use different configuration shapes: choose your client recipe. Leave MCPHTTPPORT unset for local STDIO. Docker also needs environment forwarding into the container.

Reload the client, inspect its MCP tool inventory, then ask it to search for SearXNG documentation. A simple tool call is searxngwebsearch with {"query":"SearXNG"}. Discovery alone does not test SearXNG connectivity. If the call fails, start with troubleshooting.

Features

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.