DuckDuckGo

Answer factual questions using DuckDuckGo Instant Answers.

Examples

"search DuckDuckGo for Stephen Hawking"
"who is Marie Curie"
"what is the Eiffel Tower"
"when was Albert Einstein born"
"Isaac Newton"

How it works

The skill participates in three OVOS pipeline stages:

Pipeline	Trigger	Priority
Padacioso intent (`search_duck.intent`)	Explicit "search DuckDuckGo for …" phrases	High
Common Query	Open factual questions routed by the common-query pipeline	—
Fallback	Any utterance not claimed by another skill	90 (last resort)

Queries are forwarded to the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers API via ovos-ddg-plugin, which handles:

Infobox field extraction — structured facts (birthdate, nationality, occupation, …) matched via locale-aware Padacioso intents
Abstract text — encyclopaedic summary sentences
Keyword extraction fallback — when a conversational phrase returns no result, keywords are extracted and re-queried (requires ovos-rake-keyword-extractor or compatible plugin)

Blacklisted domains (weather, reminders, alarms, timers, music, calls) are detected via per-locale vocabulary files and routed to the appropriate skill instead.

Supported languages

37 locales covering all languages in the DuckDuckGo API locale mapping: ar, bg, ca, cs, da, de, el, en, es, et, fi, fil, fr, he, hr, hu, id, it, ja, ko, lt, lv, ms, nb, nl, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sl, sv, th, tr, uk, vi, zh.

Metadata

Release files for ovos-skill-ddg 0.3.7

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Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for ovos-skill-ddg 0.3.7
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