python-duckduckgo

A Python library for querying the DuckDuckGo API.

Copyright (c) 2010 Michael Stephens <[email protected]> Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Michael Smith <[email protected]>

Released under a 3-clause BSD license, see LICENSE for details.

This Source: http://github.com/yvespeirsman/python-duckduckgo Previous Source: http://github.com/crazedpsyc/python-duckduckgo Original source: http://github.com/mikejs/python-duckduckgo (outdated)

This version was forked from Crazedpsyc's to ensure compatibility with Python 3.

Installation

To install run

python setup.py install

Usage

>>> import duckduckgo
>>> r = duckduckgo.query('DuckDuckGo')
>>> r.type
u'answer'
>>> r.results[0].text
u'Official site'
>>> r.results[0].url
u'http://duckduckgo.com/'
>>> r.abstract.url
u'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Duck_Go'
>>> r.abstract.source
u'Wikipedia'

>>> r = duckduckgo.query('Python')
>>> r.type
u'disambiguation'
>>> r.related[1].text
u'Python (programming language), a computer programming language'
>>> r.related[1].url
u'http://duckduckgo.com/Python_(programming_language)'
>>> r.related[7].topics[0].text # weird, but this is how the DDG API is currently organized
u'Armstrong Siddeley Python, an early turboprop engine'

>>> r = duckduckgo.query('1 + 1')
>>> r.type
u'nothing'
>>> r.answer.text
u'1 + 1 = 2'
>>> r.answer.type
u'calc'

>>> print duckduckgo.query('19301', kad='es_ES').answer.text
19301 es un código postal de Paoli, PA
>>> print duckduckgo.query('how to spell test', html=True).answer.text
<b>Test</b> appears to be spelled right!<br/><i>Suggestions: </i>test, testy, teat, tests, rest, yest.

The easiest method of quickly grabbing the best (hopefully) API result is to use duckduckgo.get_zci::

>>> print duckduckgo.get_zci('foo')
The terms foobar /ˈfʊːbɑːr/, fubar, or foo, bar, baz and qux are sometimes used as placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar)
>>> print ddg.get_zci('foo fighters site')
http://www.foofighters.com/us/home

Special keyword args for query():

• useragent - string, The useragent used to make API calls. This is somewhat irrelevant, as they are not logged or used on DuckDuckGo, but it is retained for backwards compatibility.
• safesearch - boolean, enable or disable safesearch.
• html - boolean, Allow HTML in responses?