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searxng-search

Search the web using a local SearXNG instance. Use for web searches, finding current information, researching topics, checking news, looking up documentation, or finding recent events. Supports categories: general, news, images, videos, it, science, social media.

First seen Apr 30, 2026

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$ npx skills add varlabz/skills --skill searxng-search

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SKILL.md

SearXNG Web Search

When to Use

  • You need up-to-date information not in your training data
  • Researching a topic, technology, library, or recent event
  • Searching for news articles or current affairs
  • Finding documentation, tutorials, or code examples
  • Looking up anything that benefits from a live web search

Procedure

Run the [search script](./scripts/search) with your query:

./scripts/search "<query>"

Categories can be combined with a comma: --category "general,news"

General web search

./scripts/search "Python asyncio best practices"

News search with time filter

./scripts/search "AI announcements" --category news --time-range week

Technical / IT search

./scripts/search "Docker multi-stage build" --category "general,it" --max-results 15

Science or academic topics

./scripts/search "transformer architecture attention mechanism" --category "science"

Video search

./scripts/search "transformer architecture attention mechanism" --category "general,videos"

Options

Flag Short Default Description
--category -c general Category (comma-separated for multiple): general, news, images, videos, it, science, files, social media, music, map
--max-results -m 10 Number of results to return
--time-range -t Filter by day, week, month, or year
--language -l en-US Language code (e.g. zh-CN, fr-FR)
--format -f json Output format: json or text
--server -s http://localhost:8080 Override the SearXNG instance URL
--safesearch -S 0 Safe search level: 0 (off), 1 (moderate), 2 (strict)