SearXNG + Puppeteer MCP Server

An MCP server implementation that integrates the SearXNG API for powerful web search capabilities and uses @missionsquad/puppeteer-scraper to read and process live web content.

This server is a component of the Mission Squad ecosystem, designed to provide reliable, agentic web browsing and information retrieval.

Features

• Web Search: Perform general queries, find news, and access articles with robust filtering.

• URL Content Reading: Scrape and process content from any URL, returning clean text.

• Pagination: Control which page of search results to retrieve.

• Time Filtering: Filter search results by time range (day, month, year).

• Language Selection: Filter results by preferred language.

• Safe Search: Control the content filtering level for search results.

Related MCP server: SearXNG MCP Server

Tools

web_search

Executes a web search using the configured SearXNG instance.

Inputs:

• query (string, required): The search query.

• pageno (number, optional): The search result page number to retrieve. Starts at 1. Defaults to 1.

• count (number, optional): The number of results to return per page. Defaults to 10.

• time_range (string, optional): Filters results by time range. Valid options are: "day", "month", "year".

• language (string, optional): The language code for results (e.g., "en", "fr", "de"). Defaults to the instance's setting.

• safesearch (string, optional): The safe search filter level. Valid options are: "0" (None), "1" (Moderate), "2" (Strict). Defaults to the instance's setting.

get_url_content

Reads the content from a given URL, processes it with Puppeteer, and returns the text content.

Inputs:

• url (string, required): The URL to fetch and process.

Configuration

Setting the SEARXNG_URL

This server requires a running SearXNG instance.

1. Choose a SearxNG instance from the list of public instances or deploy your own.

2. Set the SEARXNG_URL environment variable to the instance's URL.

3. If not set, the server defaults to http://localhost:8080.

Running SearXNG with Docker

You can run SearXNG locally using Docker.

Docker Run Command:

docker run --rm -d -p 8080:8080 -v ${PWD}/searxng:/etc/searxng:rw --name searxng searxng/searxng:latest

This command will start a SearXNG container and map it to port 8080 on your local machine.

Docker Compose Example:

Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following content:

services:
  searxng:
    container_name: searxng
    image: docker.io/searxng/searxng:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8081:8080
    volumes:
      - ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw
    environment:
      - SEARXNG_BASE_URL=https://${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME:-localhost}/
      - UWSGI_WORKERS=${SEARXNG_UWSGI_WORKERS:-4}
      - UWSGI_THREADS=${SEARXNG_UWSGI_THREADS:-4}
    cap_drop:
      - ALL
    cap_add:
      - CHOWN
      - SETGID
      - SETUID
    logging:
      driver: "json-file"
      options:
        max-size: "10m"
        max-file: "2"

Run docker-compose up -d to start the service. Note that this example maps the service to port 8081.

Usage

NPX

To run the server directly for development or testing:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng-puppeteer": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@missionsquad/mcp-searxng-puppeteer"],
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "YOUR_SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL"
      }
    }
  }
}

NPM

Install the package globally:

npm install -g @missionsquad/mcp-searxng-puppeteer

And then configure it in your MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng-puppeteer": {
      "command": "mcp-searxng-puppeteer",
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "YOUR_SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL"
      }
    }
  }
}

Docker

A Docker image will be available on Docker Hub soon. To build it locally:

docker build -t missionsquad/mcp-searxng-puppeteer:latest .

Then, add it to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng-puppeteer": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "SEARXNG_URL",
        "missionsquad/mcp-searxng-puppeteer:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "YOUR_SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL"
      }
    }
  }
}

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License

This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.