Autosearch ddgs

DuckDuckGo Search — free general web search with no auth, use as broad default for any English or mixed query.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/autosearch/skills/channels/ddgs" ~/.claude/skills/0xmariowu-autosearch-ddgs && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: autosearch/skills/channels/ddgs/SKILL.md

source content

Overview

General-purpose web search via DuckDuckGo. No API key required, no cookie. Serves as the always-on broad default for English and mixed-language queries where more specialized channels may not cover the topic.

When to Choose It

First-line web discovery before specialized channels
Queries where platform-specific coverage (github, arxiv, HN) is unlikely to help
Mixed-domain topics that need broad source variety

How To Search (Planned)

text_search

— calls the

ddgs

PyPI package (renamed from

duckduckgo-search

). Sync API wrapped in

asyncio.to_thread

. Returns

{title, href, body}

hits mapped to Evidence with 500-char snippet truncation.

Known Quirks

DDGS occasionally returns empty results during rate limit; channel returns
```
[]
```
and logs warn without crashing pipeline.
Result URLs may redirect; we keep the original href (no unwrap).

Quality Bar

Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
No crash on empty or malformed API response.
Source channel field matches the channel name.