MCP Server SearXNG

Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`SEARXNG_INSTANCES`	No	Comma-separated list of SearXNG instances URLs	http://localhost:8080
`SEARXNG_USER_AGENT`	No	Custom User-Agent header for requests	MCP-SearXNG/1.0
`SEARXNG_MAX_ATTEMPTS`	No	Total number of attempts per instance (initial request + retries)	4
`SEARXNG_RETRY_JITTER_MS`	No	Random jitter added to each retry delay in milliseconds	100
`SEARXNG_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS`	No	Per-attempt request timeout in milliseconds	10000
`SEARXNG_RETRY_BASE_DELAY_MS`	No	Base retry delay in milliseconds (exponential backoff)	300
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED`	No	Set to '0' to bypass SSL certificate verification (for development with self-signed certificates)

Instructions

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Capabilities

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

Capability	Details
`tools`	{}

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
web_searchA	Performs a web search using SearXNG and returns structured JSON results. IMPORTANT: Pagination is offset-based, NOT page-based. To get a specific range of results, set 'offset' to the zero-based index of the first result you want, and 'max_results' to how many results you want. For example, to get results 40-43, set offset=39 and max_results=4. Pagination: Use offset (not page) - offset=0=first result, offset=10=11th result Example: offset=39, max_results=4 gets results 40-43

Name

Description

web_searchA

Performs a web search using SearXNG and returns structured JSON results.

IMPORTANT: Pagination is offset-based, NOT page-based.

To get a specific range of results, set 'offset' to the zero-based index of the first result you want, and 'max_results' to how many results you want. For example, to get results 40-43, set offset=39 and max_results=4.

Pagination: Use offset (not page) - offset=0=first result, offset=10=11th result

Example: offset=39, max_results=4 gets results 40-43

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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