About searxNcrawl
searxNcrawl is an open-source project of Das Digitale Momentum GmbH & Co. KG, a software company in Much near Cologne, Germany. This page says who builds it, what is available and what is planned.
Who is behind searxNcrawl
The company builds and maintains its own software, including several open-source projects for AI agents. searxNcrawl succeeds its earlier project searxng-mcp.
- Company
- Das Digitale Momentum GmbH & Co. KG
- Managing director of the general partner
- Tim Schröder
- Address
- Loßkittel 3, 53804 Much, Germany
- Website
- https://www.das-digitale-momentum.de/
- info@ddm-it.de
- Open-source projects
- https://github.com/DasDigitaleMomentum
What searxNcrawl is
searxNcrawl is an MCP server and command-line tool. It searches the web through your own SearXNG instance and, opt-in, the You.com API, and crawls pages and whole sites into clean Markdown, also behind logins. AI agents call it through three MCP tools: search, crawl and crawl_site.
It runs on your own hardware. Search needs at least one provider: a SearXNG instance of your own with JSON output enabled, which needs no API key, and/or your own You.com API key.
What is available and what is planned
The open-source server is released, currently as version 0.32.0. searxNcrawl Cloud, a managed version, is planned; none of its capabilities is available yet.
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Web search | Available, open source |
| Page crawl | Available, open source |
| Site crawl | Available, open source |
| Authenticated crawls | Available, open source |
| STDIO and HTTP | Available, open source |
| CLI and Python API | Available, open source |
| Drop-in for the Firecrawl API | Planned, Cloud |
| Hosted MCP endpoint | Planned, Cloud |
| Search with page content | Planned, Cloud |
| Premium search | Planned, Cloud |
| Premium crawling | Planned, Cloud |
| Batch crawls with webhooks | Planned, Cloud |
| Crawls behind logins | Planned, Cloud |
| Change monitoring | Planned, Cloud |
| Structured extraction | Planned, Cloud |
How we work
We develop searxNcrawl in the open: changes go through pull requests with tests, and each release is listed in the changelog of the repository. This website follows the same habit.
- Every page has a Markdown twin; send Accept: text/markdown or append .md to the path.
- The website API is documented on the Developers page and in an OpenAPI 3.1 document.
- Machine-readable guidance for agents is in the llms.txt file.
Frequently asked questions
Who is behind searxNcrawl?
Das Digitale Momentum GmbH & Co. KG in Much, Germany (Amtsgericht Siegburg, HRA 6169), managing director Tim Schröder. searxNcrawl is an open-source project of that company. Contact: info@ddm-it.de.
Where is the source code?
On GitHub, under the MIT licence. Released versions are published as the package searxncrawl on PyPI.
When will searxNcrawl Cloud be available?
There is no date yet. The Cloud capabilities on this site are planned, not available. Join the waitlist on the start page to hear first when early access opens.
How do I report a bug or ask for a feature?
Open an issue in the GitHub repository. Security findings go to the contact in the security.txt file instead.