ask-search

Name: ask-search
Author: ythx-101

github.com/ythx-101Productivity53854 installsUpdated 31w ago

About ask-search

ask-search is a command-line web search skill for agents, powered by a locally running SearxNG instance. It aggregates search engines and supports language, category, result-count, and output-format options without an API key.

Key features

01Search across selected engines
02Filter by language and category
03Limit result count
04Output JSON or URLs

Use cases

01Find current web information for an agent
02Search news or science topics
03Pass result URLs to web_fetch

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/ythx-101/ask-search --skill ask-search

After installing, type/ask-searchin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled files

References and scripts installed along with SKILL.md.

.gitignore

LICENSE

install.sh

README.md

mcp/

server.py

scripts/

core.py

searxng/

.env.example

searxng.yml

docker-compose.yml

Details

From the project README

ask-search

Web search powered by SearxNG. Aggregates multiple search engines, zero API key, full privacy.

Usage

ask-search "your query"                    # top 10 results
ask-search "query" --num 5                 # limit results
ask-search "AI news" --categories news     # news only
ask-search "query" --lang zh-CN            # Chinese results
ask-search "query" --urls-only             # URL list (pipe to web_fetch)
ask-search "query" --json                  # raw JSON

Agent Workflow

Run ask-search "topic" to get candidates
Check snippet — if enough, answer directly
If snippet truncated, use web_fetch on the URL for full content

Parameters

Flag	Short	Description
`--num N`	`-n`	Max results (default 10)
`--engines`	`-e`	google,bing,duckduckgo,brave
`--lang`	`-l`	zh-CN, en, ja, ko
`--categories`	`-c`	general,news,images,science
`--json`	`-j`	Raw JSON output
`--urls-only`	`-u`	URLs only

Setup

Requires SearxNG running locally. Set SEARXNG_URL if not on default port 8080.

Comments

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Details

Author: ythx-101
Repository: ythx-101/ask-search
Category: Productivity
Installs: 54
GitHub stars: 538

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