# SearXNG Search MCP (community)
> A community-maintained MCP server that connects clients to an operator-controlled or trusted SearXNG instance for web search, suggestions, instance capability discovery, and bounded reading of selected URLs.
Canonical: https://www.mcpfolio.com/servers/mcp-searxng
Last updated: 2026-10-28
## Catalog record

- Publisher: Ihor Sokoliuk (community-maintained; not operated by SearXNG)
- Categories: search

## Website

https://docs.searxng.org/

## Repository

https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng

## Transports

stdio by default; optional Streamable HTTP

## Authentication

The local MCP server does not require a search-vendor API key. It requires the base URL of an existing SearXNG instance with JSON search enabled. If that instance is protected with HTTP Basic Auth, credentials may be included in the SEARXNG_URL; keep them in secure local configuration. Optional MCP HTTP bearer or OAuth settings are separate from upstream SearXNG authentication.

## Tools

- **searxng_web_search**: Run a paginated search with optional time, language, safe-search, engine/category, result-format, and detail filters.
- **searxng_search_suggestions**: Get autocomplete suggestions for a query.
- **searxng_instance_info**: Inspect available instance categories, engines, and defaults.
- **web_url_read**: Read selected URL content as Markdown/text with bounded extraction controls; PDF text is supported, OCR is not.

## Sources

- [maintainer_repository_documentation](https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng)
- [maintainer_tool_reference](https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng/blob/main/docs/tools.md)
- [maintainer_configuration_reference](https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng/blob/main/CONFIGURATION.md)
- [verified_repository_owner_profile](https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk)
- [official_product_logo_review](https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/static/themes/simple/img/searxng.png)
- [maintainer_complete_tool_reference](https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng)

## Setup

Use the interactive setup panel on [the detail page](https://www.mcpfolio.com/servers/mcp-searxng) to view instructions for each supported client.