duck-duck-scrape

npm install duck-duck-scrape - yarn add duck-duck-scrape

Search from DuckDuckGo and utilize its spice APIs for things such as stocks, weather, currency conversion and more!

Available Features

• Search
  • Regular search
  • Image search
  • Video search
  • News search
• Stocks (via Xignite)
• Time for Location API (via timeanddate.com)
• Currency Conversion (via XE)
• Forecast (via Dark Sky)
• Dictionary
  • Definition
  • Audio
  • Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation

Quickstart

JavaScript

const DDG = require('duck-duck-scrape');
const searchResults = await DDG.search('node.js', {
  safeSearch: DDG.SafeSearchType.STRICT
});

// DDG.stocks('aapl')
// DDG.currency('usd', 'eur', 1)
// DDG.dictionaryDefinition('happy')

console.log(searchResults);
/**

{
  noResults: false,
  vqd: '3-314...',
  results: [
    {
      title: 'Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript...',
      ...
      url: 'https://nodejs.org/',
      bang: {
        prefix: 'node',
        title: 'node.js docs',
        domain: 'nodejs.org'
      }
    },
    ...
  ]
}

*/

TypeScript

import { search, SafeSearchType } from 'duck-duck-scrape';
// import * as DDG from 'duck-duck-scrape';

const searchResults = await search('node.js', {
  safeSearch: SafeSearchType.STRICT
});

Changelog

[2.2.6] - 2024-11-22

Changed:

• ss_mkt is now replaced with bing_market which should allow for fewer anomalies (#141)