SearXNG MCP server

This is a helper that connects your AI assistant to SearXNG, a search engine you run yourself. Once it is set up, your AI can look things up on the web, in the news, in images, in videos and in scientific papers, and read web pages for you. It is handy for people who want search inside their AI without signing up for a paid search service or handing their queries to a big company.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something that needs looking up, like a recent news story or a paper on a topic. The AI sends your request to this helper program. The helper then asks your SearXNG search engine, which gathers results from many search sources at once. The results come back to your AI, which reads them and writes you a normal answer in the chat. If you want, the AI can also open a specific page and read it for you.

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What you can do with it

• Search the web and get ranked results with short answers and info boxes
• Find news articles with publish dates and a freshness filter
• Look up images, videos and music with links and details
• Search scientific papers with abstracts and PDF links
• Fetch a web page and read it as clean text, including text PDFs
• Get search suggestions to refine a query before searching
• Check which search engines your SearXNG instance has turned on

Try asking your AI

• “Search the web for the latest on electric car batteries and summarize the top results”
• “Find news from the past week about the housing market in my country”
• “Look up recent papers about attention in machine learning and list the PDF links”
• “Fetch this page and give me a short summary of the main points”

What it gives back to you

You get back normal chat answers built from the search results: lists of links with titles and short descriptions, news items with dates, image and video details, or paper abstracts. When the AI fetches a page, it shows you the cleaned-up text or a summary of it. Everything is presented as information to read, not as commands, so your AI treats it as data.

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Who it's for

People who want private, no-signup web search inside their AI assistant, especially those comfortable running a small Docker setup on their own machine.