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DuckDuckGo
This OVOS skill answers factual questions with DuckDuckGo Instant Answers. It uses ovos-ddg-plugin to query the API and extract facts from the results.
Install
pip install ovos-skill-ddg
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 takes part 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 | none |
| Fallback | Any utterance not claimed by another skill | 90 (last resort) |
The skill sends queries to the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers API through ovos-ddg-plugin. The plugin handles:
- Infobox field extraction: structured facts (birthdate, nationality, occupation, …) matched with locale-aware Padacioso intents
- Abstract text: encyclopedic summary sentences
- Keyword extraction fallback: when a conversational phrase returns no result, the skill extracts keywords and re-queries (this needs
ovos-rake-keyword-extractoror a compatible plugin)
The skill detects blacklisted domains (weather, reminders, alarms, timers, music, calls) with per-locale vocabulary files and routes them to the matching skill instead.
Supported languages
37 locales cover 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
Related projects
- ovos-ddg-plugin: the query and answer-extraction backend this skill uses
Category
Information
Tags
#duckduckgo #query #search-engine #searchengine
License
Apache-2.0
1 maintainer
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