duckduckgo-search 0.9.5

Duckduckgo.com search results

Duckduckgo_search

Search text, images, news using DuckDuckGo.com search engine

Dependencies

lxml, requests

Install

pip install -U duckduckgo_search

Usage

1. ddg() - search by duckduckgo.com

WARNING!: set the delay between function calls to 2 seconds to avoid site error.
If the function returns an error, wait 15 seconds.

from duckduckgo_search import ddg

def ddg(keywords, region='wt-wt', safesearch='Moderate', time=None, max_results=30, **kwargs):
    ''' DuckDuckGo search
    Query parameters, link: https://duckduckgo.com/params:
    keywords: keywords for query;
    safesearch: On (kp = 1), Moderate (kp = -1), Off (kp = -2);
    region: country of results - wt-wt (Global), us-en, uk-en, ru-ru, etc.;
    time: 'd' (day), 'w' (week), 'm' (month), 'y' (year), or 'year-month-date..year-month-date';    
    max_results = 30 gives a number of results not less than 30,   
    maximum DDG gives out about 200 results.
    '''

Returns

[{'title': title of result,
  'href': href of result,
  'body': body of result,},
 {'title': title of result,
  'href': href of result,
  'body': body of result,}, ...]

Example

from duckduckgo_search import ddg

keywords = 'google'
results = ddg(keywords, region='wt-wt', safesearch='Moderate', time='y', max_results=2)
print(results)

[
 {
 'title': 'Google', 
 'href': 'http://www.l.google.com/', 
 'body': "Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Advertising Programs Business Solutions About Google."
 }, 
 {
 'title': 'Google - Home | Facebook', 
 'href': 'https://www.facebook.com/Google/', 
 'body': "Google, Mountain View, CA. 28M likes · 52,285 talking about this · 611 were here. Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible... See actions taken by the people who manage and post content. Google Inc. is responsible for this Page."
 },
]

---

2. ddg_images() - image search by duckduckgo.com

from duckduckgo_search import ddg_images

def ddg_images(keywords, region='wt-wt', safesearch='Moderate', time=None, size=None,
           color=None, type_image=None, layout=None, license_image=None, max_results=100):
    ''' DuckDuckGo images search
    keywords: keywords for query;
    safesearch: On (kp = 1), Moderate (kp = -1), Off (kp = -2);
    region: country of results - wt-wt (Global), us-en, uk-en, ru-ru, etc.;
    time: Day, Week, Month, Year;
    size: Small, Medium, Large, Wallpaper;
    color: color, Monochrome, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, Brown, Black, Gray, Teal, White;
    type_image: photo, clipart, gif, transparent, line;
    layout: Square, Tall, Wide;
    license_image: any (All Creative Commons), Public (Public Domain), Share (Free to Share and Use),
             ShareCommercially (Free to Share and Use Commercially), Modify (Free to Modify, Share, and Use),
             ModifyCommercially (Free to Modify, Share, and Use Commercially);
    max_results: number of results, maximum ddg_images gives out 1000 results.
    '''

Returns

[{'height': image height,
  'image': image url,
  'source': image source,
  'thumbnail': image thumbnail,
  'title': image title,
  'url': url where the image was found,
  'width': image width },  
 ...
 ]

Example

from duckduckgo_search import ddg_images

keywords = 'world'
r = ddg_images(keywords='world', region='br-pt', safesearch='Off', time='Year', size='Wallpaper', 
               color='Green', type_image='Photo',layout='Square', license_image='Public', max_results=500)
print(r)

[
{'height': 1920, 'image': 'https://publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/110000/velka/arid-world.jpg', 'source': 'Bing', 'thumbnail': 'https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.kCgFTRlCKn04iljW31QvNQHaHa&pid=Api', 'title': 'Arid World Free Stock Photo - Public Domain Pictures', 'url': 'https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=108025&picture=arid-world', 'width': 1920},
 
{'height': 2400, 'image': 'https://www.goodfreephotos.com/albums/vector-images/kawaii-earth-vector-clipart.png', 'source': 'Bing', 'thumbnail': 'https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Sq1GMsUVFlekkoof_wwx7wHaHa&pid=Api', 'title': 'Kawaii Earth Vector Clipart image - Free stock photo ...', 'url': 'https://www.goodfreephotos.com/public-domain-images/kawaii-earth-vector-clipart.png.php', 'width': 2400},
...
]

---

3. ddg_news() - news search by duckduckgo.com

from duckduckgo_search import ddg_news

def ddg_news(keywords, region='wt-wt', safesearch='Moderate', time=None, max_results=30):
    ''' DuckDuckGo news search
    keywords: keywords for query;
    safesearch: On (kp = 1), Moderate (kp = -1), Off (kp = -2);
    region: country of results - wt-wt (Global), us-en, uk-en, ru-ru, etc.;
    time: 'd' (day), 'w' (week), 'm' (month);    
    max_results = 30, maximum DDG_news gives out 240 results.
    '''

Returns

[{'date': datetime in isoformat,
  'title': title of result,
  'body': body of result,
  'url': url of result,
  'image': image url,
  'source': source of result, 
 ...
 ]

Example

from duckduckgo_search import ddg_news

keywords = 'water'
r = ddg_images(keywords, region='it-it')
print(r)

[
{'date': '2022-01-23T06:55:49', 'title': 'Gli stranieri di nuovo sulle vie di Francesco', 'body': 'Assisi, l'assessore Leggio: "Segnali incoraggianti dalle prenotazioni internazionali per la primavera. Recuperare un mercato azzerato"', 'url': 'https://www.msn.com/it-it/news/italia/gli-stranieri-di-nuovo-sulle-vie-di-francesco/ar-AAT3dMR', 'image': 'https://immagini.quotidiano.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fp1014p.quotidiano.net%3A80%2Fpolopoly_fs%2F1.7280413.1642920950%21%2FhttpImage%2Fimage.jpg_gen%2Fderivatives%2Ffullsize%2Fimage.jpg&w=700&h=391&mode=fill&bg=fff', 'source': 'La Nazione on MSN.com'}, 
{'date': '2022-01-23T04:40:00', 'title': "ROAD 6 GT: i nuovi pneumatici Michelin per le moto da Gran Turismo sono gia' un successo", 'body': 'I nuovi pneumatici Michelin sono stati svelati: ecco tutte le informazioni e le differenze rispetto al modello precedente', 'url': 'https://www.tecnoandroid.it/2022/01/23/road-6-gt-i-nuovi-pneumatici-michelin-per-le-moto-da-gran-turismo-sono-gia-un-successo-1022660', 'image': 'https://www.tecnoandroid.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/michelin-road-6-gt.jpg', 'source': 'TECNOANDROID'},
...
]