ovos-skill-ddg 0.3.7

OVOS DuckDuckGo skill — factual Q&A via DDG Instant Answers

DuckDuckGo

Answer factual questions using DuckDuckGo Instant Answers.

Powered by ovos-ddg-plugin.

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.

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Tags

#duckduckgo #query #search-engine #searchengine