Self-Hosted Search Engine: SearXNG + OpenClaw Tutorial
In this video, I will show you how to set up SearXNG using OpenClaw for private web search directly on your local machine
. SearXNG is a self-hosted, key-free web search provider that aggregates results from search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo
. The best part? It is completely free, unlimited, and highly privacy-friendly because your search queries never leave your network
.
We will walk through the entire step-by-step process, starting with pulling the SearXNG image using Docker
. Next, we configure OpenClaw for local web search and edit the internal container settings to ensure SearXNG outputs in its native JSON format instead of HTML scraping
. Once OpenClaw is restarted, you can use SearXNG alongside tools like Ollama and local models like Gemma 4
. This creates a completely local, self-hosted AI setup where absolutely nothing goes to the cloud
.
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