When to Use
- You need up-to-date information not in your training data
- Researching a topic, technology, library, or recent event
- Searching for news articles or current affairs
- Finding documentation, tutorials, or code examples
- Looking up anything that benefits from a live web search
Procedure
Run the search script with your query:
./scripts/search "<query>"
Categories can be combined with a comma:
--category "general,news"
General web search
./scripts/search "Python asyncio best practices"
News search with time filter
./scripts/search "AI announcements" --category news --time-range week
Technical / IT search
./scripts/search "Docker multi-stage build" --category "general,it" --max-results 15
Science or academic topics
./scripts/search "transformer architecture attention mechanism" --category "science"
Video search
./scripts/search "transformer architecture attention mechanism" --category "general,videos"
Options
| Flag | Short | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--category |
-c |
general |
Category (comma-separated for multiple): general, news, images, videos, it, science, files, social media, music, map |
--max-results |
-m |
10 |
Number of results to return |
--time-range |
-t |
— | Filter by day, week, month, or year |
--language |
-l |
en-US |
Language code (e.g. zh-CN, fr-FR) |
--format |
-f |
json |
Output format: json or text |
--server |
-s |
http://localhost:8080 |
Override the SearXNG instance URL |
--safesearch |
-S |
0 |
Safe search level: 0 (off), 1 (moderate), 2 (strict) |