searxng-news-research

SearXNG News Research

News- and topic-monitoring workflow over the searxng-mcp server. Same web_search tool as general search, but scoped to the news (and optionally social_media) categories and paged to collect broad, recent coverage from many outlets at once.

When to use

• Track breaking events or ongoing coverage of a topic across many outlets.
• Sweep recent announcements (releases, CVEs, incidents) before summarizing.
• Build a dated reading list of candidate articles to fetch and synthesize.

When NOT to use

• Stable reference facts / general lookups → searxng-web-search.
• Peer-reviewed or preprint literature → scholarx.
• Reading / extracting one known article in full → web-fetch / web-crawler.
• Structured social-platform pulls (X/Reddit/YouTube/HN) → pulselink-mcp.

Prerequisites & environment

Connect via the mcp-client skill against the searxng-mcp MCP server. Same env matrix as searxng-web-search (SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL, USE_RANDOM_INSTANCE, SEARXNG_USERNAME/SEARXNG_PASSWORD, SEARXNG_KG_INGEST, MCP_TOOL_MODE). For news freshness, prefer a self-hosted SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL so JSON output is not rate-limited.

Tools & actions

Tool	Purpose
web_search	Metasearch, scoped via categories:["news"].
searxng_ingest_search	Same search + persist results to the KG (for a monitoring corpus).

Key parameters

• query — the topic/entity to monitor.
• categories — ["news"] (add "social_media" for chatter).
• pageno — increment to widen coverage; news pages fall off fast, so 1–3 pages is typical.
• language — outlet language, default en-US.

Recipes

Latest news on a topic:

{"query": "openbao 2.0 release", "categories": ["news"]}

News + social chatter, page 2:

{"query": "kubernetes 1.31 CVE", "categories": ["news", "social_media"], "pageno": 2}

Monitor + persist into the KG for later synthesis (via searxng_ingest_search):

{"query": "nvidia gb10 availability", "categories": ["news"]}