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@toninho09/duckduckgo-search

v1.0.2

Published

Pi coding agent skill: web search and webpage content extraction via DuckDuckGo — no API key, zero dependencies.

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Maintainers

toninho09toninho09

Keywords

pi-packagepi-skillduckduckgosearchweb-searchweb-scraping

Readme

DuckDuckGo Search (pi skill)

A pi coding agent skill for web search and webpage content extraction via DuckDuckGo's HTML endpoint. No API key required. Zero dependencies — plain Node.js.

JS port of duckduckgo-mcp-server.

Install

pi install npm:@toninho09/duckduckgo-search

Requires Node.js 18+. Uses the system curl only as a fallback when DuckDuckGo blocks the default HTTP client.

Usage

Once installed, the agent can use two scripts from the duckduckgo-search skill.

Web search

./scripts/search.js "query"                     # Basic search (10 results)
./scripts/search.js "query" -n 5                # Limit results
./scripts/search.js "query" --region br-pt      # Region/language (e.g. us-en, br-pt, jp-ja)
./scripts/search.js "query" --safe strict       # SafeSearch: strict | moderate | off

Output: numbered list with title, URL, and snippet for each result.

Fetch page content

./scripts/content.js https://example.com                 # Extract page text (first 8000 chars)
./scripts/content.js https://example.com --start 8000    # Next page of a long document
./scripts/content.js https://example.com --max 4000      # Shorter chunk

Output: page title and cleaned text, ending with a [Content info: ...] footer describing character offsets. Handles HTML, plain text, JSON, and XML; respects page encodings (charset header and <meta> sniffing).

Configuration (environment variables)

| Variable | Default | Description | |---------------------------|------------|------------------------------------------------| | DDG_SAFE_SEARCH | moderate | Default SafeSearch mode (strict/moderate/off) | | DDG_REGION | (none) | Default region code (e.g. br-pt) | | DDG_ALLOW_PRIVATE_URLS | off | Set 1 to allow fetching private/internal URLs |

Notes

  • Keep it under ~30 searches per minute; DuckDuckGo rate-limits abusive clients. If a search returns a block message, wait a few minutes and retry.
  • content.js refuses URLs that resolve to loopback/private/link-local/metadata addresses (SSRF guard, covering IPv4, IPv6, and alternate IP notations) and re-validates every redirect hop.

License

MIT