---
title: SearXNG Search API
emoji: 🔍
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: purple
sdk: docker
pinned: false
license: mit
app_port: 8080
tags:
  - search
  - api
  - searxng
  - metasearch
---

# SearXNG Search API

A privacy-focused metasearch engine with JSON API support.

## API Usage

### Search Endpoint

```
GET /search?q=your+query&format=json
```

**Parameters:**
| Param | Description | Example |
|-------|-------------|---------|
| `q` | Search query (required) | `python async` |
| `format` | Output format | `json`, `html`, `rss` |
| `categories` | Category filter | `general`, `images`, `news`, `it`, `science` |
| `engines` | Specific engines | `google,duckduckgo,github` |
| `pageno` | Page number | `1`, `2`, `3` |
| `language` | Language code | `en`, `de`, `pl` |
| `time_range` | Time filter | `day`, `week`, `month`, `year` |

### Example Requests

```bash
# Basic search (JSON)
curl "https://chmielvu-search.hf.space/search?q=machine%20learning&format=json"

# Search specific engines
curl "https://chmielvu-search.hf.space/search?q=fastapi&engines=github,stackoverflow&format=json"

# News search
curl "https://chmielvu-search.hf.space/search?q=AI&categories=news&format=json"

# IT/programming search
curl "https://chmielvu-search.hf.space/search?q=docker&categories=it&format=json"
```

### Response Format (JSON)

```json
{
  "query": "machine learning",
  "number_of_results": 42,
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Result Title",
      "url": "https://example.com",
      "content": "Snippet of content...",
      "engine": "google",
      "parsed_url": ["https", "example.com", "/path", "", ""]
    }
  ]
}
```

## Available Engines

- **General:** Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing
- **Development:** GitHub, StackOverflow
- **Science:** arXiv
- **Social:** Reddit
- **Media:** Pixiv

## MCP Integration

This instance can be used with the [SearXNG MCP Server](https://github.com/nik-sharky/searxng-mcp) for AI agent integration.