Is SearxNcrawl safe to use?

SearxNcrawl has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install SearxNcrawl?

SearxNcrawl supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with SearxNcrawl?

SearxNcrawl is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is SearxNcrawl actively maintained?

SearxNcrawl is recently maintained — last commit was 44 days ago. It has 104 GitHub stars.

SearxNcrawl

Name: SearxNcrawl
Author: DasDigitaleMomentum

by DasDigitaleMomentum

MCP Server and CLI Tools for searxing and fetching websites

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No known CVEs

MIT license

Maintained

Last commit 44d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crawler": {
      "cwd": "/path/to/searxNcrawl",
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "http://your-searxng-instance:8888"
      },
      "args": [
        "-m",
        "crawler.mcp_server"
      ],
      "command": "python"
    }
  }
}

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What SearxNcrawl does

searxNcrawl is a minimal MCP server and CLI toolkit for search and crawling, built on top of Crawl4AI and SearXNG.

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Is SearxNcrawl safe to use?: SearxNcrawl has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install SearxNcrawl?: SearxNcrawl supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with SearxNcrawl?: SearxNcrawl is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is SearxNcrawl actively maintained?: SearxNcrawl is recently maintained — last commit was 44 days ago. It has 104 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crawler": {
      "cwd": "/path/to/searxNcrawl",
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "http://your-searxng-instance:8888"
      },
      "args": [
        "-m",
        "crawler.mcp_server"
      ],
      "command": "python"
    }
  }
}

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What SearxNcrawl does

searxNcrawl is a minimal MCP server and CLI toolkit for search and crawling, built on top of Crawl4AI and SearXNG.

Test This Server

No automated test available for this server. Check the GitHub README for setup instructions.

README

searxNcrawl

MCP server and CLI toolkit for web search and crawling, built on Crawl4AI and SearXNG.

Published at github.com/DasDigitaleMomentum/searxNcrawl — maintained by DDM – Das Digitale Momentum GmbH & Co KG. Successor to searxng-mcp.

Quick Start

Pick your setup:

Docker Compose (everything included)

SearXNG, Playwright, and the MCP server — one command.

cp .env.example .env          # edit SEARXNG_URL if needed
docker compose up --build

➜ MCP server at http://localhost:9555/mcp

pip (standalone)

CLI tools, Python API, and MCP server. SearXNG required for search.

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
playwright install chromium

uv (standalone)

Same capabilities as pip.

uv sync
uv run playwright install chromium

What you get

Feature	Docker Compose	pip / uv
MCP Server (STDIO)	—	✅
MCP Server (HTTP)	✅	✅
Web Crawl	✅	✅
Web Search	✅ (included)	✅¹
CLI Tools	via `exec`²	✅
Python API	—	✅
CORS (HTTP)	✅	✅

¹ Requires a SearXNG instance. ² docker compose exec searxncrawl crawl ...

Features

Crawling

Single page, multi-page, and site crawling (DFS with depth/page limits)
Production-tested extraction config optimized for documentation sites
Configurable timeouts with graceful error handling

Content Quality

Markdown deduplication — exact (default) removes repeated blocks, off disables it
Link removal — strip all links for cleaner LLM context (--remove-links)
Dedup guardrails — non-destructive metadata signals when removal is unusually aggressive

Web Search

SearXNG metasearch integration (privacy-respecting)
Configurable language, time range, categories, engines, safe search

MCP Server

STDIO transport — for MCP harnesses (Zed, opencode, VS Code, Claude Code, etc.)
HTTP transport — for remote access and browser clients
CORS support — configurable origins for browser-based MCP clients
Noise-free startup with UTF-8 encoding (cross-platform, incl. Windows)

CLI Tools

crawl — crawl pages from the command line
search — search the web via SearXNG
crawl-capture — session capture for authenticated crawling

Installation

Docker Compose

The Compose stack includes searxNcrawl + SearXNG + Playwright/Chromium.

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env: set SEARXNG_URL if using external SearXNG, or keep default
docker compose up --build

Variable	Default	Description
`MCP_PORT`	`9555`	MCP server HTTP port

The MCP server is available at http://localhost:9555/mcp.

pip

cd searxNcrawl
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
playwright install chromium

uv

cd searxNcrawl
uv sync
uv run playwright install chromium

SearXNG (search feature)

The search tool and CLI command require a SearXNG instance with JSON output enabled (search.formats in settings.yml). Docker Compose includes one automatically. For pip/uv, you need your own — self-hosting is recommended over public instances (rate limits).

Environment variables:

Variable	Default	Description
`SEARXNG_URL`	`http://localhost:8888`	SearXNG instance URL
`SEARXNG_USERNAME`	(none)

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

40/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−60

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

No package registry to scan.

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is SearxNcrawl safe to use?: SearxNcrawl has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install SearxNcrawl?: SearxNcrawl supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with SearxNcrawl?: SearxNcrawl is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is SearxNcrawl actively maintained?: SearxNcrawl is recently maintained — last commit was 44 days ago. It has 104 GitHub stars.