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Autosearch searxng

Use for general web meta-search via a local SearXNG instance when broad multi-engine web coverage is needed and SEARXNG_URL is configured.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/autosearch/skills/channels/searxng" ~/.claude/skills/0xmariowu-autosearch-searxng && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: autosearch/skills/channels/searxng/SKILL.md
source content

Overview

SearXNG is a self-hosted meta-search engine aggregating results from 70+ sources (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.). Requires a local SearXNG instance reachable at 

SEARXNG_URL
(default: 
http://localhost:8080
). Free, no external API key.

When to Choose It

  • Broad web coverage without a specific platform focus
  • News and current events research
  • Fallback when other channels return insufficient results

How To Search

POST/GET to 

$SEARXNG_URL/search?q=<query>&format=json
.

Quality Bar

  • Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
  • No crash on empty or malformed API response.
  • Source channel field matches the channel name.