# Local Search Service

This is the background Web Search extraction service for the **LocalAiApp**. It acts as a lightweight proxy and DOM parser that connects your mobile app (React Native) to SearXNG, ensuring the Local AI context is pristine Markdown.

## How it Works
1. Receives a search query from the LocalAiApp via `POST /search-and-extract`.
2. Asks your local `SearXNG` instance for the top results.
3. Fetches the HTML of the resulting pages.
4. Uses `linkedom` and `Readability` to strip out all menus, footers, scripts, and clutter.
5. Converts the clean article payload into `Markdown` using `node-html-markdown`.
6. Returns the pure Markdown text to the LocalAiApp to inject into the AI's prompt.

## Setup

### Requirements
- Node.js v18+ 
- A running instance of [SearXNG](https://github.com/searxng/searxng) (running locally at `http://127.0.0.1:8888` by default).

### Running

1. Install dependencies:
   ```bash
   npm install
   ```

2. Start the service (runs on port `3030`):
   ```bash
   npm start
   ```

## Integrations
Inside the main `LocalAiApp`, the chat input now has a Web Search toggle (the Globe icon). When activated, every prompt sent will first trigger the search service. The service fetches context online and feeds the result as an invisible pre-system-prompt to LM Studio!