Onion Search MCP Server

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Onion Search runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.

Local, read-only onion search and text retrieval over Tor with content filtering.

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15 Oct 2026

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MIT

License

Python

What the code does

We read the source, 20 h ago · rules ccca72095570

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Claims read-only, but the code runs commands src/onion_search_mcp/tor_runtime.py:14

        result = subprocess.run(["tor", "--hash-password", password], capture_output=True, text=True, check=True)

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command src/onion_search_mcp/tor_runtime.py:14

        result = subprocess.run(["tor", "--hash-password", password], capture_output=True, text=True, check=True)

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We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Onion Search and you get told the day something new turns up.

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Onion Search — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Onion Search?

Onion Search runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone.

Is Onion Search open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.