searxng – OpenClaw Skill

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name: searxng description: Privacy-first web search via local SearXNG instance. Google-free meta-search using DuckDuckGo, Brave, Qwant, Startpage, and more. Use for any web search query. homepage: http://localhost:8888 metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"🔍","requires":{"bins":["curl","jq"]}}}

SearXNG - Private Web Search

Local SearXNG instance at http://localhost:8888 with Google/Bing disabled.

Search (JSON API)

Basic search:

curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&format=json" | jq -r '.results[:5] | .[] | "[\(.title)](\(.url))\n\(.content)\n"'

With result limit:

curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&format=json" | jq -r '.results[:10] | .[] | {title, url, content}'

Get just URLs:

curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&format=json" | jq -r '.results[:5] | .[].url'

Categories

Search specific categories:

# Images
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&categories=images&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

# Videos
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&categories=videos&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

# News
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&categories=news&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

# IT/Tech
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&categories=it&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

# Science
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&categories=science&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

Time Filters

Recent results:

# Last day
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&time_range=day&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

# Last week
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&time_range=week&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

# Last month
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&time_range=month&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

# Last year
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&time_range=year&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

Language/Region

# English results
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&language=en&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

# Specific region (US)
curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&language=en-US&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'

Enabled Search Engines

Privacy-respecting only (no Google, Bing):

• DuckDuckGo (weight 1.5)
• Brave Search (weight 1.5)
• Startpage (weight 1.2)
• Mojeek (weight 1.0)
• Qwant (weight 1.0)
• Wikipedia (weight 1.5)
• GitHub
• StackOverflow
• Reddit
• arXiv
• Piped/Invidious (YouTube privacy frontends)

Tips

• URL-encode spaces: q=hello%20world or q=hello+world
• Combine filters: categories=news&time_range=week
• For complex queries, use the web UI: http://localhost:8888

Example Usage

Find recent AI news:

curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=artificial+intelligence+news&categories=news&time_range=week&format=json" | jq -r '.results[:5] | .[] | "## \(.title)\n\(.url)\n\(.content)\n"'

Search GitHub repos:

curl -s "http://localhost:8888/search?q=python+web+scraper&categories=repos&format=json" | jq '.results[:5]'