diff --git a/api.py b/api.py
index 56d3154..080a485 100755
--- a/api.py
+++ b/api.py
@@ -299,4 +299,4 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         port = int(envport)
     else:
         port = 7777
-    uvicorn.run(api, host="0.0.0.0", port=7777)
\ No newline at end of file
+    uvicorn.run(api, host="0.0.0.0", port=port)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/sources/tools/searxSearch.py b/sources/tools/searxSearch.py
index 686d3e1..2bc31d0 100644
--- a/sources/tools/searxSearch.py
+++ b/sources/tools/searxSearch.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import sys
 import os
 
 if __name__ == "__main__": # if running as a script for individual testing
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ class searxSearch(Tools):
         self.tag = "web_search"
         self.name = "searxSearch"
         self.description = "A tool for searching a SearxNG for web search"
-        self.base_url = os.getenv("SEARXNG_BASE_URL")  # Requires a SearxNG base URL
+        self.base_url = base_url or os.getenv("SEARXNG_BASE_URL")  # Requires a SearxNG base URL
         self.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
         self.paywall_keywords = [
             "Member-only", "access denied", "restricted content", "404", "this page is not working"