MCP Server Searxng

🚀 SearXNG MCP Server

An MCP server implementation integrating SearXNG, offering privacy-focused meta-search functionality.

🚀 Quick Start

The SearXNG MCP Server combines SearXNG to provide users with a privacy - focused meta - search experience.

✨ Features

• Meta - search: Combines results from multiple search engines.
• Privacy - focused: No tracking, no user profiling.
• Multi - category support: Supports general, news, science, files, images, videos, etc.
• Language support: Search by specified language or all languages.
• Time range filtering: Filter results by day, week, month, or year.
• Safe search: Three levels of safe - search filtering.
• Backup support: Multiple SearXNG instances ensure reliability.

📦 Installation

npm install -g @kevinwatt/mcp-server-searxng

💻 Usage Examples

Basic Usage

mcp-server-searxng

Advanced Usage

Integrate with Dive Desktop

1. Click "+ Add MCP Server" in Dive Desktop.
2. Copy and paste the following configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@kevinwatt/mcp-server-searxng"
      ]
    }
  }
}

3. Click "Save" to install the MCP server.

📚 Documentation

API: web_search

• Perform a meta - search across multiple engines.
• Input parameters:
  • query (string): Search term.
  • page (number, optional): Page number (default: 1).
  • language (string, optional): Language code (e.g., 'en', 'all', default: 'all').
  • categories (array, optional): Search categories (default: ['general']).
    • Available values: "general", "news", "science", "files", "images", "videos", "music", "social media", "it".
  • time_range (string, optional): Time filter (by day/week/month/year).
  • safesearch (number, optional): Safe - search level (0: none, 1: medium, 2: strict, default: 1).

🔧 Technical Details

Environment Variable Configuration

• SEARXNG_INSTANCES: A comma - separated list of URLs for SearXNG instances. Default value: http://localhost:8080

• SEARXNG_USER_AGENT: Custom User - Agent header in requests. Default value: MCP - SearXNG/1.0

• NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED: Set to '0' to bypass SSL certificate verification (for development environments). Default value: undefined (SSL verification enabled)

Example configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng": {
      "name": "searxng",
      "command": "npx", 
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@kevinwatt/mcp-server-searxng"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_INSTANCES": "http://localhost:8080,https://searx.example.com",
        "SEARXNG_USER_AGENT": "CustomBot/1.0", 
        "NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED": "0"
      }
    }
  }
}

⚠️ Important Note

It is not recommended to disable SSL certificate verification in a production environment.