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Overview ¶
Package searxng provides a full-featured SearXNG search client for Go, mirroring the mcp-searxng TypeScript server (src/search.ts).
Key behaviours ported from the MCP:
- Full search parameter support (language, time_range, safesearch, categories, engines, pageno, num_results, min_score)
- HTML fallback: always active — when the instance returns 403/404 or a non-JSON body, the client retries without format=json and parses the HTML DOM
- Basic authentication via SEARXNG_AUTH_USERNAME / SEARXNG_AUTH_PASSWORD (or AUTH_USERNAME / AUTH_PASSWORD for MCP compatibility)
- Custom User-Agent via SEARXNG_USER_AGENT / USER_AGENT
- HTTP proxy via SEARXNG_HTTP_PROXY / HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY
- Configurable timeout via SEARXNG_TIMEOUT_MS (default 10 000 ms)
- Result truncation via SEARXNG_MAX_RESULTS (operator cap 1–20)
- Per-result char limit via SEARXNG_MAX_RESULT_CHARS
Index ¶
Constants ¶
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Variables ¶
var DefaultURLCache = NewURLCache()
DefaultURLCache is the process-wide singleton, matching the MCP's exported urlCache.
Functions ¶
func FormatText ¶
func FormatText(data *SearchResponse) string
FormatText formats a SearchResponse into human-readable text, matching the text output path of performWebSearch in search.ts.
Types ¶
type Client ¶
type Client struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Client is a stateless SearXNG search client. Create one with NewClient and reuse it across requests.
func NewClient ¶
func NewClient() *Client
NewClient creates a Client configured from environment variables.
Environment variables (in priority order):
- SEARXNG_URL or SEARXNG_BASE_URL — base URL of the SearXNG instance (required)
- SEARXNG_TIMEOUT_MS — request timeout in milliseconds (default 10 000)
- SEARXNG_AUTH_USERNAME / AUTH_USERNAME — basic auth username
- SEARXNG_AUTH_PASSWORD / AUTH_PASSWORD — basic auth password
- SEARXNG_USER_AGENT / USER_AGENT — custom User-Agent header
- SEARXNG_HTTP_PROXY / HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY — proxy URL
func NewClientForTest ¶
func NewClientForTest(rawURL string, transport http.RoundTripper) *Client
NewClientForTest creates a minimal Client with a custom http.RoundTripper. Intended for unit tests only; skips env-var reading for transport/auth.
func NewClientWithURL ¶
NewClientWithURL creates a Client pointing at a specific base URL. All other settings are read from environment variables.
func NewClientWithURLAndAuth ¶
NewClientWithURLAndAuth creates a Client with an explicit base URL and Basic Auth credentials. username and password are empty strings when no auth is needed.
func (*Client) IsConfigured ¶
IsConfigured reports whether a base URL has been set.
func (*Client) Search ¶
func (c *Client) Search(input SearchInput) (*SearchResponse, error)
Search executes a search and returns the response. It transparently falls back to HTML parsing when the instance does not support the JSON format endpoint.
type Infobox ¶
type Infobox struct {
Infobox string `json:"infobox"`
Content string `json:"content,omitempty"`
URLs []InfoboxURL `json:"urls,omitempty"`
}
Infobox mirrors SearXNGWebInfobox.
type InfoboxURL ¶
InfoboxURL is a link entry inside an infobox.
type SearchInput ¶
type SearchInput struct {
// Ctx is propagated to the HTTP requests; nil falls back to context.Background().
Ctx context.Context
// Query is the search string. Required.
Query string
// PageNo is the page number (default 1).
PageNo int
// TimeRange restricts results to a time window: "day", "week", "month", "year".
TimeRange string
// Language is the BCP-47 language code, e.g. "en", "fr". "all" means no restriction.
Language string
// Safesearch filter: 0 = none, 1 = moderate, 2 = strict.
Safesearch int
// MinScore filters results whose score is below this threshold (0.0–1.0).
// Zero means no filter.
MinScore float64
// NumResults caps the number of returned results (1–20). Zero means server default.
NumResults int
// Categories is a comma-separated list of SearXNG categories, e.g. "general,news".
Categories string
// Engines is a comma-separated list of engine names, e.g. "google,bing,ddg".
Engines string
}
SearchInput holds all parameters for a search request. Zero values are omitted from the query string.
type SearchResponse ¶
type SearchResponse struct {
Query string `json:"query"`
NumberOfResults int `json:"number_of_results"`
Results []WebResult `json:"results"`
Suggestions []string `json:"suggestions,omitempty"`
Corrections []string `json:"corrections,omitempty"`
Answers []string `json:"answers,omitempty"`
Infoboxes []Infobox `json:"infoboxes,omitempty"`
// SourceFormat is set internally: "json" when parsed from JSON,
// "html" when obtained via the HTML fallback path.
SourceFormat string `json:"-"`
}
SearchResponse is the full JSON payload from SearXNG /search?format=json.
type URLCache ¶
type URLCache struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
URLCache is a TTL + LFU (least-frequently-used on tie) in-memory cache. Mirrors SimpleCache from cache.ts.
func NewURLCache ¶
func NewURLCache() *URLCache
NewURLCache creates a cache with TTL and max size read from env vars, matching the MCP's CACHE_TTL_MS and CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES.
type WebResult ¶
type WebResult struct {
Title string `json:"title"`
URL string `json:"url"`
Content string `json:"content"`
Score float64 `json:"score,omitempty"`
Engine string `json:"engine,omitempty"`
Engines []string `json:"engines,omitempty"`
Category string `json:"category,omitempty"`
PublishedDate string `json:"publishedDate,omitempty"`
Thumbnail string `json:"thumbnail,omitempty"`
}
WebResult mirrors SearXNGWebResult from the MCP types.ts.
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