DuckDuckGo News Scraper
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DuckDuckGo News Scraper
Under maintenanceScrapes 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
| Field | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
query | Required news topic or search phrase, from 2 to 200 characters. | — |
maxItems | Maximum number of complete, unique articles to return (1–100). | 20 |
maxPages | Maximum number of result pages to load (1–5). | 5 |
region | DuckDuckGo region code, such as us-en or uk-en. | us-en |
timeRange | Publication period: any time, past day (d), week (w), or month (m). | Any time |
sortBy | Sort by relevance or publication date. | relevance |
requestTimeoutSecs | Maximum time allowed for a page load, in seconds (10–120). | 45 |
requestDelayMs | Delay 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.