# Search API — SearXNG Documentation (2025.6.29+60be0f453)

# Search API

The search supports both `GET` and `POST`.

Furthermore, two endpoints `/` and `/search` are available for querying.

`GET /`

`GET /search`

## Parameters

`q` required

  The search query. This string is passed to external search services. Thus, SearXNG supports syntax of each search service. For example, `site:github.com SearXNG` is a valid query for Google. However, if simply the query above is passed to any search engine which does not filter its results based on this syntax, you might not get the results you wanted.

  See more at Search syntax

`categories` optional

  Comma separated list, specifies the active search categories (see Configured Engines)

`engines` optional

  Comma separated list, specifies the active search engines (see Configured Engines).

`language` default from search:

  Code of the language.

`pageno` default `1`

  Search page number.

`time_range` optional

  [ `day`, `month`, `year` ]

  Time range of search for engines which support it. See if an engine supports time range search in the preferences page of an instance.

`format` optional

  [ `json`, `csv`, `rss` ]

  Output format of results. Format needs to be activated in search:.

`results_on_new_tab` default `0`

  [ `0`, `1` ]

  Open search results on new tab.

`image_proxy` default from server:

  [ `True`, `False` ]

  Proxy image results through SearXNG.

`autocomplete` default from search:

  [ `google`, `dbpedia`, `duckduckgo`, `mwmbl`, `startpage`, `wikipedia`, `stract`, `swisscows`, `qwant` ]

  Service which completes words as you type.

`safesearch` default from search:

  [ `0`, `1`, `2` ]

  Filter search results of engines which support safe search. See if an engine supports safe search in the preferences page of an instance.

`theme` default `simple`

  [ `simple` ]

  Theme of instance.

  Please note, available themes depend on an instance. It is possible that an instance administrator deleted, created or renamed themes on their instance. See the available options in the preferences page of the instance.

`enabled_plugins` optional

  List of enabled plugins.

  default:

    `Hash_plugin`, `Self_Information`, `Tracker_URL_remover`, `Ahmia_blacklist`

  values:

    `Hash_plugin`, `Self_Information`, `Tracker_URL_remover`, `Ahmia_blacklist`,

    `Hostnames_plugin`, `Open_Access_DOI_rewrite`, `Vim-like_hotkeys`, `Tor_check_plugin`

`disabled_plugins`: optional

  List of disabled plugins.

  default:

    `Hostnames_plugin`, `Open_Access_DOI_rewrite`, `Vim-like_hotkeys`, `Tor_check_plugin`

  values:

    see values from `enabled_plugins`

`enabled_engines` optionalall engines

  List of enabled engines.

`disabled_engines` optionalall engines

  List of disabled engines.