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SearXNG MCP Server for VS Code

io.github.bumbarasch/searxng-mcp-server

Self-hosted SearXNG metasearch for MCP clients: web, image, news, video, music and page fetch.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install SearXNG MCP Server in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "searxng-url",
      "description": "SEARXNG_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "searxng-transport",
      "description": "SEARXNG_TRANSPORT",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "searxng-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "searxng-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "${input:searxng-url}",
        "SEARXNG_TRANSPORT": "${input:searxng-transport}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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