The first and only C#-adapted meta-search engine, yeah!
SearXSharp is a C# port of the legendary SearXNG — the privacy-respecting, self-hosted meta-search engine.
It queries multiple search engines simultaneously, merges, deduplicates, and returns clean structured results. No API keys. No paid subscriptions. Just raw scraping power.
Why does this exist? Because every AI project needs to search the web without paying $200/month to Google/Bing/Whoever, and the Python ecosystem had SearXNG while .NET devs were left jerking off in the corner. Not anymore!
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│ THIS PROJECT IS ENTIRELY VIBE-CODED │
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│ I'm not sure if it works 100% like original SearXNG, │
│ but I hope that this thing can be useful for your AI applications │
│ to avoid paid APIs! │
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│ Respect robots.txt and terms of service of the websites │
│ you're scraping. │
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SearXSharp fires all engines simultaneously (like SearXNG's threading model) and merges results faster than your boss can say "why is this not done yet?"
Results are deduplicated by URL. When conflicts happen, the result with more content wins. Survival of the fittest!
- Random user-agent rotation (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and even GSA mobile agents)
- Cookie consent bypass for Google
- CAPTCHA detection and logging
- Configurable timeouts per engine
No API keys needed. Just pure HTML scraping, like nature intended.
using SearXSharp;
// Create the manager (you can optionally pass your own ILogger)
var manager = new SearchEngineManager();
// Register the all available engines
manager.RegisterEngines(SearchEngines.AllEngines());
// Configure your search
var query = new SearchQuery
{
Query = "C# meta search engine",
Language = "en",
SafeSearch = SafeSearchLevel.Moderate,
TimeRange = TimeRange.Week,
MaxResults = 20
};
// Search ALL the things!
var results = await manager.SearchAllAsync(query);
// Results are already merged and deduplicated!
Console.WriteLine($"Found {results.Results.Count} results in {results.TotalTimeMs}ms");
foreach (var result in results.Results)
{
Console.WriteLine($"- {result.Title}: {result.Url}");
}Want to add a new engine? Here's the template:
public class MyCoolSearchEngine : SearchEngineBase
{
public override string Name => "mycoolengine";
public override string DisplayName => "My Cool Engine";
public MyCoolSearchEngine(ILogger logger) : base(logger)
{
// Configure your engine here
}
public override async Task<SearchResultList> SearchAsync(SearchQuery query, CancellationToken ct)
{
// 1. Build your request URL
// 2. Scrape the HTML/parse JSON
// 3. Return SearchResultList
// 4. Profit (or not, this is open source)
}
}MIT — Do whatever the you want with it, just don't blame me if something breaks. This project is vibe-coded, remember?
- SearXNG — The original Python-based meta-search engine that inspired this beautiful disaster
- You, the user — For being too cheap to pay for search APIs
- Me, the vibe-coder — For writing this at 2 AM while questioning my life choices
Made with ❤️, ☕, and an unhealthy amount of profanity
If this project saved you money, buy me a coffee. Or don't. I'm not your mom.
