How to use SearXNG instead of Google search

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1. Install SearXNG

You can find the installation method suitable for you via the link above. Here we use Docker as an example.
You can execute the following code in the folder where you want to store the program data:

mkdir -p ./searxng/config/ ./searxng/data/
cd ./searxng/
docker run --name searxng -d \
    -p 8888:8080 \
    -v "./config/:/etc/searxng/" \
    -v "./data/:/var/cache/searxng/" \
    docker.io/searxng/searxng:latest

2. Configure SearXNG

Enter the container

docker container exec -it --user root searxng /bin/sh -l

Edit /etc/searxng/settings.yml using your favorite editor

vi /etc/searxng/settings.yml

Add - json below formats (line 77), it should look like this:

  formats:
    - html
    - json

Save and exit the container
Restart the container

docker container restart searxng

3. Configure mcp-searxng

Make sure you have Node.js installed
Add "mcpServers": {} below "theme": "..." in ~/.llxprt/settings.json

• Using npx
  Add these contents inside the curly braces after mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-searxng"],
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8888"
      }
    }
  }
}

• Using npm
  Execute the following command in the terminal:

npm install -g mcp-searxng

Add these contents inside the curly braces after mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searxng": {
      "command": "mcp-searxng",
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8888"
      }
    }
  }
}

Additionally, if you find a SearXNG server that supports JSON format, you can ignore steps 1 and 2, and simply replace "http://127.0.0.1:8888" in step 3 with the server address.