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Searxng MCP Server

The-AI-Workshops/searxng-mcp-server

An MCP sse implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integrated with SearXNG for providing AI agents with powerful, privacy-respecting search capabilities.

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Install

docker run --rm -i -e TRANSPORT -e SEARXNG_BASE_URL -e HOST -e PORT mcp/searxng-mcp

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "-e",
        "TRANSPORT",
        "-e",
        "SEARXNG_BASE_URL",
        "-e",
        "HOST",
        "-e",
        "PORT",
        "mcp/searxng-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRANSPORT": "<TRANSPORT>",
        "SEARXNG_BASE_URL": "<SEARXNG_BASE_URL>",
        "HOST": "<HOST>",
        "PORT": "<PORT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

TRANSPORTSEARXNG_BASE_URL
GitHub stars
2
Author
@The-AI-Workshops
Category
Search Tools
License
MIT
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

About Searxng MCP Server

This project demonstrates how to build an MCP server that enables AI agents to perform web searches using a SearXNG instance. It serves as a practical template for creating your own MCP servers, using SearXNG as a backend.

Tools (11)

  • categories

    Comma-separated list of active search categories.

  • engines

    Comma-separated list of active search engines.

  • language

    Code of the language.

  • page

    Search page number (default: 1).

  • time_range

    [day, month, year]

  • format

    [json, csv, rss] (default: json)

  • results_on_new_tab

  • image_proxy

    [true, false]

  • autocomplete

    [google, dbpedia, duckduckgo, mwmbl, startpage, wikipedia, stract, swisscows, qwant]

  • safesearch

  • theme

    [simple]

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

Supported clients

Clients mentioned in this server's README:

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The first agentic IDE. The Windsurf editor truly merges how developers and AI work together.

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