What can you do with this server?

This server allows you to perform web searches using public SearXNG instances and returns results in JSON format. * **Web Search**: Execute searches by providing a `query` string * **Time-Range Filtering**: Optionally filter results by time range (day, month, year) * **JSON Output**: Receive results as an array of objects containing `url` and `summary` for each result * **Fallback Support**: Uses up to three public SearXNG servers with primary and fallback options * **Easy Integration**: Can be installed and run via npm with simple configuration

Which integrations are available for this server?

Queries public [SearXNG](/mcp/servers/integrations/searxng) instances by parsing HTML search results into JSON format, allowing searches with time range filtering (day, month, year), and providing URL and summary data for each result.

mcp-searxng-public

An MCP server that queries public SearXNG instances, parsing HTML contents into a JSON result

Rationale

All the MCP servers for SearXNG that I've seen use "json" as the output format. While that is certainly a faster way to code a SearXNG MCP server, it will make it fail on virtually all public servers since they don't expose the JSON format.

This server will read from up to three public SearXNG servers (using one as main and the others as fallback) and will parse the results into JSON.

Related MCP server: SearXNG Server

Installation

Install via npm install mcp-searxng-public.

If the server is installed, the run configuration is (for Cursor or Cursor-compatible clients) as follows:

{ "SearXNGScraper": { "command": "npx", "args": ["mcp-searxng-public"], "capabilities": { "tool-calls": true }, "env": { "SEARXNG_BASE_URL": "https://metacat.online;https://nyc1.sx.ggtyler.dev;https://ooglester.com;https://search.080609.xyz;https://search.canine.tools;https://search.catboy.house;https://search.citw.lgbt;https://search.einfachzocken.eu;https://search.federicociro.com;https://search.hbubli.cc;https://search.im-in.space;https://search.indst.eu", "DEFAULT_LANGUAGE": "en" } } }

Note: You may need to adjust the env variables, particularly SEARXNG_BASE_URL, to point to your preferred SearXNG instances. The DEFAULT_LANGUAGE can also be set as needed. You can run the report task to get a report on good (accessible) SearXNG instances which you can put in the URLs line.

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Usage

The server exposes one endpoint: search. The endpoint takes four arguments:

query - the search query
time_range (optional) - which takes a time range parameter according to the https://docs.searxng.org/dev/search_api.html spec (day, month or year).
language (optional) - the language code for the search (e.g., en, es, fr). If not provided, it defaults to the value of the DEFAULT_LANGUAGE environment variable. If neither is set, no language parameter is sent to SearXNG.
detailed (optional) - if set to "true", performs a more thorough search by querying up to 3 servers and fetching multiple pages of results (pages 1, 2, and 3) from each server, then merging and deduplicating the results.

Returned is an array of objects:

[ { "url": "https://github.com/searxng/searxng", "summary": "You can start SearXNG using make run in the terminal or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B" }, { "url": "https://searx.bndkt.io/", "summary": "Powered by searxng - 2025.3.22+5986629c6 — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine Source code | Issue tracker | Engine stats | Public instances | Contact instance maintainer" }, { "url": "https://docs.searxng.org/" "summary": "SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 243 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor …" } { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG", "summary": "SearXNG is federated, and as such is hosted by several instances, public and private. Private instances are hosted on a local network, or run on the user's desktop computer itself, and are …" } ]