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DuckDuckGo News Scraper

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DuckDuckGo News Scraper

DuckDuckGo News Scraper

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Scrapes news search results from DuckDuckGo. Extracts title, URL, source, excerpt, thumbnail, and publication date.

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Search DuckDuckGo News for public article results and save the matching news cards to an Apify dataset.

Input

FieldDescriptionDefault
queryRequired news topic or search phrase, from 2 to 200 characters.—
maxItemsMaximum number of complete, unique articles to return (1–100).20
maxPagesMaximum number of result pages to load (1–5).5
regionDuckDuckGo region code, such as us-en or uk-en.us-en
timeRangePublication period: any time, past day (d), week (w), or month (m).Any time
sortBySort by relevance or publication date.relevance
requestTimeoutSecsMaximum time allowed for a page load, in seconds (10–120).45
requestDelayMsDelay before loading another result page, in milliseconds (0–5000).250

Example input:

{
"query": "artificial intelligence",
"maxItems": 10,
"maxPages": 2,
"region": "uk-en",
"timeRange": "w",
"sortBy": "date"
}

Output

Each dataset item describes one complete news result. It includes the headline, article URL, publisher, excerpt, publication time, and search context. Publication timestamps and thumbnail URLs are included when available.

{
"position": 1,
"title": "A public AI story",
"url": "https://example.com/news/a-public-story",
"domain": "example.com",
"source": "Example News",
"excerpt": "A complete excerpt shown on the news result card.",
"relativeTime": "2 hours ago",
"publishedAt": "2026-10-05T10:00:00.000Z",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://example.com/images/story.jpg",
"query": "artificial intelligence",
"region": "uk-en",
"timeRange": "w",
"sortBy": "date",
"resultPage": 1,
"sourcePageUrl": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=artificial+intelligence&iar=news&ia=news&kl=uk-en&df=w&sort=date",
"scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T12:00:00.000Z"
}

The example values are illustrative. Results reflect the public News cards available for the selected query and region.