Show HN: Sifthound – self-hosted, Tavily-compatible search API for AI agents

Category: ai-ml

Tags: search-api, ai-agents, tavily-alternative, self-hosted, mcp-server, searxng

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Sifthound (Siftdog) is an open-source, self-hosted Tavily-compatible search API for AI agents, providing /search, /extract, /crawl, and /map endpoints using SearXNG and trafilatura. It offers a drop-in replacement for Tavily with official SDK compatibility, plus an MCP server for integration with Claude and Cursor.

Target audience: AI engineers, backend developers, and devops teams building LLM applications

Repository: https://github.com/khsarvar/sifthound · Python · MIT · 2 stars

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