DuckDuckgo Search API is a python based library for searching various functionalities of DuckDuckgo. It uses screen scraping to retrieve the results, and thus is unreliable if the way DuckDuckgo's web pages are returned change in the future.
Disclaimer: This software uses screen scraping to retrieve search results from DuckDuckgo.com, and therefore this software may stop working at any given time. Use this software at your own risk. I assume no responsibility for how this software API is used by others.
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The repo is structured like a package, so it can be installed from pip using github clone url. From command line type:
pip install git+https://github.com/arthurbarros/DuckDuckgo-Search-API
To upgrade the package if you have already installed it:
pip install git+https://github.com/arthurbarros/DuckDuckgo-Search-API --upgrade
You can search DuckDuckgo web in the following way:
from duckduckgo import duckduckgo
search_results = duckduckgo.search("This is my query")search_results will contain a list of DuckDuckgoResult objects. num_page parameter is optional (default is 1 page)
DuckDuckgoResult:
self.name # The title of the link
self.link # The external link
self.description # The description of the link