diff --git a/text-searchxng.go b/text-searchxng.go
index 0796730..8fd13fe 100644
--- a/text-searchxng.go
+++ b/text-searchxng.go
@@ -5,34 +5,55 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 )
 
 type Instance struct {
-	URL      string `json:"url"`
-	Status   int    `json:"status"`
-	SSLGrade string `json:"ssl_grade"`
+	URL             string                 `json:"-"` // Populated from map key
+	Analytics       bool                   `json:"analytics"`
+	Comments        []string               `json:"comments"`
+	AlternativeUrls map[string]interface{} `json:"alternativeUrls"`
+	Main            bool                   `json:"main"`
+	NetworkType     string                 `json:"network_type"`
+	HTTP            struct {
+		StatusCode int    `json:"status_code"`
+		Error      string `json:"error"`
+	} `json:"http"`
+	Version    string       `json:"version"`
+	Grade      string       `json:"grade"`
+	GradeURL   string       `json:"gradeUrl"`
+	Generator  string       `json:"generator"`
+	ContactURL FlexibleType `json:"contact_url"` // Custom type
+	DocsURL    string       `json:"docs_url"`
+}
+
+type FlexibleType struct {
+	StringValue string
+	BoolValue   bool
+	IsString    bool
 }
 
 const searxInstancesURL = "https://searx.space/data/instances.json"
 
+// FetchInstances fetches available SearX instances from the registry.
 func fetchInstances() ([]Instance, error) {
 	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Second}
 	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", searxInstancesURL, nil)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("creating request: %v", err)
 	}
 
 	XNGUserAgent, err := GetUserAgent("Text-Search-XNG")
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("generating User-Agent: %v", err)
 	}
-
 	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", XNGUserAgent)
 
 	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("performing request: %v", err)
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 
@@ -42,42 +63,103 @@ func fetchInstances() ([]Instance, error) {
 
 	body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading response body: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	var instances []Instance
-	err = json.Unmarshal(body, &instances)
+	// Root structure of the JSON response
+	var root struct {
+		Instances map[string]Instance `json:"instances"`
+	}
+
+	// Unmarshal JSON into the root structure
+	err = json.Unmarshal(body, &root)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing response JSON: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Collect instances into a slice
+	var instances []Instance
+	for url, instance := range root.Instances {
+		instance.URL = url // Assign the URL from the map key
+		instances = append(instances, instance)
 	}
 
 	return instances, nil
 }
 
+// UnmarshalJSON implements custom unmarshalling for FlexibleType.
+func (f *FlexibleType) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
+	// Try to unmarshal as a string
+	var str string
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &str); err == nil {
+		f.StringValue = str
+		f.IsString = true
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Try to unmarshal as a bool
+	var b bool
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &b); err == nil {
+		f.BoolValue = b
+		f.IsString = false
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Return an error if neither works
+	return fmt.Errorf("invalid FlexibleType: %s", string(data))
+}
+
+// String returns the string representation of FlexibleType.
+func (f FlexibleType) String() string {
+	if f.IsString {
+		return f.StringValue
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%v", f.BoolValue)
+}
+
+// ValidateInstance checks if a SearX instance is valid by performing a test query.
 func validateInstance(instance Instance) bool {
-	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Second}
-	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", fmt.Sprintf("%s/search?q=test&categories=general&language=en&safe_search=1&page=1&format=json", instance.URL), nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		printWarn("Error creating request for URL: %s, Error: %v", instance.URL, err)
+	// Skip .onion instances
+	if strings.Contains(instance.URL, ".onion") {
+		printDebug("Skipping .onion instance: %s", instance.URL)
 		return false
 	}
-	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36")
+
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Timeout: 10 * time.Second,
+	}
+
+	testURL := fmt.Sprintf("%s/search?q=test&categories=general&language=en&safe_search=1&page=1&format=json", instance.URL)
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", testURL, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		printDebug("Error creating SearchXNG request for instance validation: %v", err)
+		return false
+	}
+
+	XNGUserAgent, err := GetUserAgent("Text-Search-XNG")
+	if err != nil {
+		printWarn("Error generating User-Agent: %v", err)
+		return false
+	}
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", XNGUserAgent)
 
 	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
-		printWarn("Error performing request for URL: %s, Error: %v", instance.URL, err)
+		printDebug("Error performing request for SearchXNG instance validation: %v", err)
 		return false
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 
 	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
-		printWarn("Instance validation failed for URL: %s, StatusCode: %d", instance.URL, resp.StatusCode)
+		printDebug("SearchXNG Instance validation failed. StatusCode: %d", resp.StatusCode)
 		return false
 	}
 
+	// Successful validation
 	return true
 }
 
+// GetValidInstance fetches and validates SearX instances, returning a valid one.
 func getValidInstance() (*Instance, error) {
 	instances, err := fetchInstances()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -93,11 +175,76 @@ func getValidInstance() (*Instance, error) {
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("no valid SearX instances found")
 }
 
-// func main() {
-// 	instance, err := getValidInstance()
-// 	if err != nil {
-// 		log.Fatalf("Failed to get a valid SearX instance: %v", err)
-// 	}
+// PerformSearXTextSearch performs a text search using a SearX instance.
+func PerformSearXTextSearch(query, categories, language string, page int) ([]TextSearchResult, time.Duration, error) {
+	// Default value for "safe" search
+	safe := "1"
 
-// 	log.Printf("Selected SearX instance: %s", instance.URL)
-// }
+	startTime := time.Now() // Start the timer
+	var results []TextSearchResult
+
+	instance, err := getValidInstance()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("failed to get a valid SearX instance: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	searchURL := fmt.Sprintf("%s/search?q=%s&categories=%s&language=%s&safe_search=%s&page=%d&format=json",
+		instance.URL, url.QueryEscape(query), categories, language, safe, page)
+
+	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Second}
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", searchURL, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("creating request: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	XNGUserAgent, err := GetUserAgent("Text-Search-XNG")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("generating User-Agent: %v", err)
+	}
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", XNGUserAgent)
+
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("performing request: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("reading response body: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Parse the JSON response to extract search results
+	var response map[string]interface{}
+	err = json.Unmarshal(body, &response)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("parsing response JSON: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Extract search results
+	if items, ok := response["results"].([]interface{}); ok {
+		for _, item := range items {
+			if result, ok := item.(map[string]interface{}); ok {
+				title := strings.TrimSpace(fmt.Sprintf("%v", result["title"]))
+				url := strings.TrimSpace(fmt.Sprintf("%v", result["url"]))
+				description := strings.TrimSpace(fmt.Sprintf("%v", result["content"]))
+
+				results = append(results, TextSearchResult{
+					Header:      title,
+					URL:         url,
+					Description: description,
+				})
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	duration := time.Since(startTime) // Calculate the duration
+
+	if len(results) == 0 {
+		printDebug("No results found for query: %s", query)
+		return nil, duration, fmt.Errorf("no results found")
+	}
+
+	printDebug("Search completed successfully for query: %s, found %d results", query, len(results))
+	return results, duration, nil
+}
diff --git a/text.go b/text.go
index d6e3212..07ec09a 100755
--- a/text.go
+++ b/text.go
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ func init() {
 		{Name: "LibreX", Func: wrapTextSearchFunc(PerformLibreXTextSearch)},
 		{Name: "Brave", Func: wrapTextSearchFunc(PerformBraveTextSearch)},
 		{Name: "DuckDuckGo", Func: wrapTextSearchFunc(PerformDuckDuckGoTextSearch)},
-		// {Name: "SearXNG", Func: wrapTextSearchFunc(PerformSearXNGTextSearch), Weight: 2}, // Uncomment when implemented
+		//  {Name: "SearXNG", Func: wrapTextSearchFunc(PerformSearXTextSearch)}, // Always says StatusCode: 429
 	}
 }