An MCP server that queries public SearXNG instances, parsing HTML contents into a JSON result
An MCP server that queries public SearXNG instances, parsing HTML contents into a JSON result. That is what the mcp mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
All the MCP servers for SearXNG that I've seen use "json" as the output format. While that is certainly a faster way to code a SearXNG MCP server, it will make it fail on virtually all public servers since they don't expose the JSON format.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
The server publishes 1 tool. What each one is for:
query — the search queryConfiguration is passed through the environment: SEARXNG_BASE_URL, DEFAULT_LANGUAGE. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. MCP's toolset — query — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by ilintar; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| query | the search query |
{
"mcpServers": {
"searxng-public": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-searxng-public"],
"env": {
"SEARXNG_BASE_URL": "your-value",
"DEFAULT_LANGUAGE": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SEARXNG_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| DEFAULT_LANGUAGE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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