Show HN: Standalone SearXNG CLI+MCP (no server needed)

Category: cli-tool

Tags: cli-tool, search-engine, privacy, python-library, mcp-server, ai-assistant

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

This project provides a CLI, Python library, and MCP server for interacting with the SearXNG privacy-respecting metasearch engine, wrapping it with AI-assisted research capabilities. It's interesting for bringing privacy-focused, multi-engine search directly into terminals, code, and AI assistants without needing a separate server, but its novelty is tempered by being a wrapper on existing technology.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/nikvdp/searxng-ai-kit · Python

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