MCP Server for SearxNG Bridge
Searxng MCP Bridge becomes available to MCP clients through the searxng mcp bridge mcp server. MCP Server for SearxNG Bridge.
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that bridges to a SearXNG metasearch engine instance. It exposes SearXNG search capabilities as MCP tools, allowing any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, opencode, etc.) to perform web searches through a self-hosted, privacy-respecting search engine.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 2 tools directly:
search — The search tool exposed by this serverhealth_check — Check the health and connectivity status of the SearXNG instance and bridge serverThe server is distributed via npm as @nitish-raj/searxng-mcp-bridge, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
Before the server will start you need to supply one environment variable: SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Searxng MCP Bridge sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — search, health_check — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools 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 | The search tool exposed by this server. |
| health_check | Check the health and connectivity status of the SearXNG instance and bridge server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"searxng-mcp-bridge": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@nitish-raj/searxng-mcp-bridge"],
"env": {
"SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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