diff --git a/searx/engines/kagi.py b/searx/engines/kagi.py
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+"""Kagi Search
+Scrapes Kagi's HTML search results.
+"""
+
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+from lxml import html
+
+from searx.utils import extract_text, eval_xpath, eval_xpath_list
+from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineAPIException
+from searx import logger
+
+logger = logger.getChild('kagi')
+
+about = {
+    "website": 'https://kagi.com',
+    "wikidata_id": None,
+    "official_api_documentation": None,
+    "use_official_api": False,
+    "require_api_key": True,
+    "results": 'HTML',
+}
+
+categories = ['general', 'web']
+paging = True
+time_range_support = False
+safesearch = False
+
+base_url = 'https://kagi.com/html/search'
+
+api_key = None  # Set in settings.yml
+
+# Global cookie storage for Kagi authentication
+kagi_cookies = {'kagi_session': None, '_kagi_search_': None}
+
+
+def request(query, params):
+    if not api_key:
+        raise SearxEngineAPIException('missing Kagi API key')
+
+    page = params['pageno']
+
+    if 'cookies' not in params:
+        params['cookies'] = {}
+    params['cookies'].update(kagi_cookies)
+
+    if kagi_cookies['kagi_session'] and kagi_cookies['_kagi_search_']:
+        logger.debug(
+            "Using Kagi cookies for authentication - session: %s, search: %s",
+            kagi_cookies['kagi_session'],
+            kagi_cookies['_kagi_search_'],
+        )
+        search_url = base_url + '?' + urlencode({'q': query, 'batch': page})
+    else:
+        missing = []
+        if not kagi_cookies['kagi_session']:
+            missing.append('kagi_session')
+        if not kagi_cookies['_kagi_search_']:
+            missing.append('_kagi_search_')
+        logger.debug("Missing cookies %s, using API key for initial authentication", missing)
+        search_url = base_url + '?' + urlencode({'q': query, 'token': api_key, 'batch': page})
+
+    params['url'] = search_url
+    params['headers'].update(
+        {
+            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) '
+            'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
+            'Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
+            'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
+            'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
+            'DNT': '1',
+        }
+    )
+    params['allow_redirects'] = True
+    params['verify'] = True
+    params['max_redirects'] = 1
+
+    return params
+
+
+def response(resp):
+    results = []
+
+    if 'set-cookie' in resp.headers:
+        cookies = resp.headers.get_list('set-cookie')
+        for cookie in cookies:
+            try:
+                cookie_parts = cookie.split('=', 1)
+                if len(cookie_parts) != 2:
+                    continue
+
+                name = cookie_parts[0].strip()
+                value = cookie_parts[1].split(';')[0].strip()
+
+                if name == 'kagi_session':
+                    if value != kagi_cookies['kagi_session']:
+                        kagi_cookies['kagi_session'] = value
+                        resp.search_params['cookies']['kagi_session'] = value
+                        logger.debug("Updated kagi_session cookie: %s", value)
+                elif name == '_kagi_search_':  # Exact match for search cookie
+                    if value != kagi_cookies['_kagi_search_']:
+                        kagi_cookies['_kagi_search_'] = value
+                        resp.search_params['cookies']['_kagi_search_'] = value
+                        logger.debug("Updated _kagi_search_ cookie: %s", value)
+            except ValueError as e:
+                logger.warning("Failed to parse Kagi cookie: %s", str(e))
+
+        logger.debug(
+            "Global Kagi cookies - session: %s, search: %s", kagi_cookies['kagi_session'], kagi_cookies['_kagi_search_']
+        )
+        logger.debug(
+            "Request Kagi cookies - session: %s, search: %s",
+            resp.search_params['cookies'].get('kagi_session'),
+            resp.search_params['cookies'].get('_kagi_search_'),
+        )
+
+    if resp.status_code == 401:
+        kagi_cookies['kagi_session'] = None
+        kagi_cookies['_kagi_search_'] = None
+        resp.search_params['cookies'].clear()
+        logger.debug("Cleared invalid Kagi cookies")
+
+        raise SearxEngineAPIException('Invalid Kagi authentication')
+    if resp.status_code == 429:
+        raise SearxEngineAPIException('Kagi rate limit exceeded')
+    if resp.status_code != 200:
+        raise SearxEngineAPIException(f'Unexpected HTTP status code: {resp.status_code}')
+
+    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
+
+    for result in eval_xpath_list(dom, '//div[contains(@class, "_0_SRI")]'):
+        try:
+            title_tag = eval_xpath(result, './/a[contains(@class, "__sri_title_link")]')[0]
+            title = extract_text(title_tag)
+            url = title_tag.get('href')
+            content_tag = eval_xpath(result, './/div[contains(@class, "__sri-desc")]')
+            content = extract_text(content_tag[0]) if content_tag else ''
+            domain = eval_xpath(result, './/span[contains(@class, "host")]/text()')
+            if domain:
+                domain = domain[0]
+
+            search_result = {'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content, 'domain': domain}
+            results.append(search_result)
+
+        except (IndexError, KeyError):
+            continue
+
+    return results