Search API

Search

POST /search

Search the web using built-in backends. No API keys needed.

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	(required)	Search query
limit	number	10	Max results
backend	string	"lite"	lite, bing, brave, meta, searxng

Example: Meta-search

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9090/search \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "query": "rust async runtime",
    "limit": 5,
    "backend": "meta"
  }'

{
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Tokio - Asynchronous runtime",
      "url": "https://tokio.rs",
      "snippet": "A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications..."
    },
    {
      "title": "Async Rust",
      "url": "https://async.rs",
      "snippet": "Async programming in Rust..."
    }
  ],
  "total": 5,
  "backend": "meta"
}

Backends

Backend	Description
lite	DuckDuckGo Lite HTML scraper (default)
bing	Bing HTML scraper with cite-breadcrumb extraction
brave	Brave HTML scraper with clean URLs
meta	All three concurrently, interleaved and deduped
searxng	Self-hosted SearXNG aggregator (requires config)

See the Search Guide for backend configuration and SearXNG setup.