A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for category-aware web search, website scraping, and date/time tools. Designed for seamless integration with
If you want an AI assistant working directly with MCP Searxng Enhanced, the mcp searxng enhanced mcp server is the bridge. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for category-aware web search, website scraping, and date/time tools. Designed for seamless integration with SearXNG and modern MCP clients.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for category-aware web search, website scraping, and date/time tools. Designed for seamless integration with SearXNG and modern MCP clients.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 4 tools directly:
search_web — Web search via SearXNGget_website — Scrape website contentget_current_datetime — Current date/timePrerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverSetup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.
Before the server will start you need to supply 4 environment variables: SEARXNG_ENGINE_API_BASE_URL, DESIRED_TIMEZONE, ODS_CONFIG_PATH, MCP_HTTP_HOST. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
Search and scraping servers exist to fix the single most common failure of any assistant: answering from stale training data instead of what is on the web today. MCP Searxng Enhanced sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — search_web, get_website, get_current_datetime among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other search web scraping servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_web | Web search via SearXNG |
| get_website | Scrape website content |
| get_current_datetime | Current date/time |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"overtlids/mcp-searxng-enhanced": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run", "-i", "--rm", "--network=host",
"-e", "SEARXNG_ENGINE_API_BASE_URL=http://host.docker.internal:8080/search",
"-e", "DESIRED_TIMEZONE=America/New_York",
"-e", "ODS_CONFIG_PATH=/config/ods_config.json",
"-e", "RETURNED_SCRAPPED_PAGES_NO=3",
"-e", "SCRAPPED_PAGES_NO=5",
"-e", "PAGE_CONTENT_WORDS_LIMIT=5000",
"-e", "CITATION_LINKS=True",
"-e", "MAX_IMAGE_RESULTS=10",
"-e", "MAX_VIDEO_RESULTS=10",
"-e", "MAX_FILE_RESULTS=5",
"-e", "MAX_MAP_RESULTS=5",
"-e", "MAX_SOCIAL_RESULTS=5",
"-e", "TRAFILATURA_TIMEOUT=15",
"-e", "SCRAPING_TIMEOUT=20",
"-e", "CACHE_MAXSIZE=100",
"-e", "CACHE_TTL_MINUTES=5",
"-e", "CACHE_MAX_AGE_MINUTES=30",
"-e", "RATE_LIMIT_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE=10",
"-e", "RATE_LIMIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=60",
"-e", "IGNORED_WEBSITES=",
"overtlids/mcp-searxng-enhanced:latest"
],
"timeout": 60
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SEARXNG_ENGINE_API_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| DESIRED_TIMEZONE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| ODS_CONFIG_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
| MCP_HTTP_HOST | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Optional |
The simplest web tool that matters — fetch any URL and get model-ready markdown back.
Industrial-strength web extraction — render, scrape, crawl and search entire sites into clean markdown.
Puppeteer-powered browser control that drives pages from the accessibility tree instead of pixels.
Search built for AI, not humans — semantic web search that returns model-ready content, plus code context.
Answers, not links — delegate questions to Perplexity's search-grounded models and get cited responses back.
Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.