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ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng

Private web search for AI assistants via SearXNG — supports Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client observed · 2026-09-01

github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng · homepage · TypeScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-09-01

Health v2 · maintenance only

88/100

  • Activity 100
  • Release rhythm 99
  • Longevity 44
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 2
  • age_days: 619
  • days_rel: 8
  • days_push: 2
  • n_releases_24m: 54

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1183 stars · 155 forks observed · 2026-09-01

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

An MCP server that exposes a SearXNG metasearch instance to AI assistants like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP clients. It provides web search with pagination, time-range/language/safe-search filters, relevance scoring, and URL reading, keeping search traffic under an operator-controlled or self-hosted instance.

Use cases

  • give Claude Desktop or Cursor privacy-respecting web search via my own SearXNG instance
  • add a self-hosted web search tool to any MCP client
  • search the web from an AI assistant without sending queries to third-party search APIs
  • run an MCP server that proxies SearXNG with pagination and safe-search filters
  • let an LLM agent fetch and read URLs through a trusted metasearch backend
  • configure multiple SearXNG replicas for resilient AI assistant search

When to choose

  • you already run or trust a SearXNG instance and want AI assistants to use it
  • you need MCP-compatible web search for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline, or other MCP clients
  • privacy matters and you want to avoid commercial search API keys and tracking
  • you want filters like time range, language, safe search, and min-score relevance in agent search

When to avoid

  • you have no SearXNG instance and don't want to host or trust one
  • you need a general-purpose search API outside the MCP ecosystem
  • your assistant doesn't support the Model Context Protocol

Facets

service · maturity active

mcp search-engine http-client privacy artificial-intelligence privacy self-hosted developer-tools self-hosted cross-platform mcp-server searxng web-search ai-assistants claude-desktop cursor metasearch model-context-protocol search nodejs docker

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Member repositories

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