DuckDuckGo Scraper

Scrape search result data from DuckDuckGo easily with DuckDuckGo Scraper.

About

DuckDuckGo is an American software company focused on online privacy, whose flagship product is a search engine named DuckDuckGo. Founded by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008, its later products include browser extensions and a custom DuckDuckGo web browser. Headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania, DuckDuckGo is a privately held company with about 200 employees. The company's name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose.

Why should you use it?

It provides the realtime scraping of search results from DuckDuckGo, without requiring any other configuration and without any limits.

How to use it?

DuckDuckGo Scraper has number of input parameters that can be used.

Input parameter	Description	Required	Default value
query	Query which you want to get search results	true	""
maxResult	Number of results that you want to scrape from DuckDuckGo	false	100
timeFrame	Time frame from which you want to retrive search results. Possible values: 'a' - Anytime, 'd' - Past day, 'w' - Past week, 'm' - Past month, 'y' - Past year	false	'a'
safeSearch	Filter out websites that contain explicit or mature content. Possible values: 0 - Strict, -1 - Moderate, -2 - Off	false	-2

Examples

Input

Scrape search results for query "Senior java developer job" and scrape maximum of 100 results:

{
  "query": "Senior java developer job",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "timeFrame": "a",
  "safeSearch": -2
}

Output

{
  "title": "Behavox: Senior Java Developer - indexventures.com",
  "description": "As a **Senior** **Java** **Developer** , you will be a part of an engineering\nteam responsible for one of our products. You will partner up with the product\nmanagement, design and other engineering teams to solve complex technical\nproblems and deliver outstanding products to our clients, on time. For the\nright Talent this is a great opportunity because: 1.\n\n",
  "rawDescription": "As a <b>Senior</b> <b>Java</b> <b>Developer</b>, you will be a part of an engineering team responsible for one of our products. You will partner up with the product management, design and other engineering teams to solve complex technical problems and deliver outstanding products to our clients, on time. For the right Talent this is a great opportunity because: 1.",
  "hostname": "www.indexventures.com",
  "icon": "https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.indexventures.com.ico",
  "url": "https://www.indexventures.com/startup-jobs/behavox/senior-java-developer-91/",
  "time": "2025-05-17T00:00:00.0000000"
}

DuckDuckGo Scraper data output

The output from DuckDuckGo Scraper is stored in the dataset. After the run is finished, you can download the dataset in various data formats (JSON, CSV, XML, RSS, HTML Table).

❓FAQ

Do I need proxies to scrape search results from DuckDuckGo?

Proxy for this scraper is already preconfigured for optimal performance.

Support

For more custom/simplify outputs or Bug report please contact the developer (ivan.vasiljevic (at) hotmail.com) or report an issue.

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