🦆 DuckDuckGo Search Scraper

🚀 Pull DuckDuckGo organic search results with privacy-first defaults. Region, time-range, and safe-search filters. Pagination past 100 results per query. No tracking, no API key.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-01 · 📊 7 fields per result · 🌍 50+ regions · 🔄 paginated to 100+ · 🦆 100M+ daily searches

The DuckDuckGo Search Scraper queries the public DuckDuckGo HTML endpoint and returns the ranked organic results page with title, source URL, displayed URL, and snippet. The Actor decodes the DDG redirect wrapper so you get clean destination URLs and paginates through the offset parameter to reach well past 100 organic listings per query.

DuckDuckGo serves more than 100 million searches per day and is the default privacy alternative for journalists, security teams, and lawyers. Because DDG blends results from a different signal mix than Google or Bing, certain listings surface here that competitors bury, especially in newer or niche topics. This Actor exposes that data cleanly with region and time-range filters.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Privacy researchers, SEO teams, journalists, security analysts, OSINT teams	Alternative SERP tracking, regional comparison, niche topic discovery, OSINT lookups

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📋 What the DuckDuckGo Search Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Multi-query batches. Submit a list of queries, the Actor runs each as a separate search.
• 🌍 Region filter. DDG's kl parameter routes the query through that regional index.
• 📅 Time-range filter. Restrict to last day, week, month, or year using DDG's df parameter.
• 🛡️ Safe-search filter. Strict, moderate, or off via the kp parameter.
• 🔄 Pagination. Walks past the first 30 results using offset increments and rotates proxies between pages.

Each row reports the originating query, rank position, title, decoded source URL, displayed URL, and the snippet text DDG renders under the title.

💡 Why it matters: DuckDuckGo treats every visitor identically because it does not personalize on cookies or IP. That is exactly what SEO researchers want when they need a non-personalized rank snapshot. Privacy-conscious audiences also use DDG as their default, so a brand's DDG visibility matters in healthcare, legal, and finance.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Results to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.
queries	array of strings	["apify scraper"]	One or more search queries.
region	string	"us-en"	DDG region code like us-en, de-de, fr-fr.
timeRange	string	empty	d, w, m, or y for last day, week, month, year.
safeSearch	string	"moderate"	strict, moderate, or off.

Example: 100 organic results for "web scraping" in the US.

{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "queries": ["web scraping"],
    "region": "us-en"
}

Example: this-week results for two queries in Germany.

{
    "maxItems": 60,
    "queries": ["KI Agenten", "Web Scraping API"],
    "region": "de-de",
    "timeRange": "w"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: the Actor decodes DDG's /l/?uddg=... redirect wrapper so the url field contains the actual destination domain. Pagination beyond 30 results uses POST with offset; the Actor handles this automatically with proxy rotation between pages.

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📊 Output

Each result row contains 7 fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🔍 query	string	"web scraping"
🏆 rank	integer	1
📰 title	string	"What is Web Scraping and How to Use It? - GeeksforGeeks"
🔗 url	string	"https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/blogs/..."
🌐 displayedUrl	string	"www.geeksforgeeks.org/blogs/..."
📝 snippet	string	"Web scraping is an automated method to extract..."
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-05-01T01:15:39.046Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🔒	Privacy-first source. DDG does not personalize on cookies or IP, so rankings are stable across users.
🔄	Past page 1. Offset pagination plus proxy rotation reaches 100+ organic results per query.
🌍	50+ regional indexes. Aligns with the audience's actual regional search defaults.
📅	Time-range slice. Day, week, month, year windows for fresh content tracking.
📦	Multi-query batching. Submit dozens of queries per run.
🔗	Decoded URLs. No DDG redirect wrappers in the output.
🛡️	Anti-bot handled. Proxy rotation per page keeps single-IP throttling at bay.

📊 In a single 31-second run the Actor returned 100 organic results for the query "web scraping".

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
Direct browser scraping	Free	Hits captchas	Live	Manual	Engineer hours
Paid SERP APIs	$$$ subscription	Full	Live	Built-in	Account setup
Generic search-data brokers	$$ subscription	Aggregated	Daily	Limited	Account setup
⭐ DuckDuckGo Search Scraper (this Actor)	Pay-per-event	Past page 1	Live	Region, time, safe-search	None

Same data the DDG SERP serves, exposed as clean records with redirect wrappers decoded.

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🚀 How to use

1. 🆓 Create a free Apify account. Sign up here and get $5 in free credit.
2. 🔍 Open the Actor. Search for "DuckDuckGo Search" in the Apify Store.
3. ⚙️ Set queries and filters. Add queries, pick region and time range.
4. ▶️ Click Start. A 100-result run typically completes in 25 to 45 seconds.
5. 📥 Download. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from sign-up to first dataset: under five minutes.

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💼 Business use cases

📈 SEO & content Capture a non-personalized rank snapshot Track DDG visibility for privacy-sensitive audiences Monitor regional rank differences across 50+ markets Audit how DDG resurfaces older evergreen content	🛡️ Brand & OSINT Detect impersonation pages on a non-Google index Cross-reference Google rank with DDG rank to spot anomalies Run OSINT lookups without leaking searcher identity Audit reputation across privacy-respecting search
⚖️ Legal & finance Reproducible SERP snapshots for case research Track how DDG presents regulated topics Build evidence-grade rank reports Run unbiased rank checks for internal audits	📰 Journalism Compare regional SERPs for the same story Track time-range search shifts during news cycles Cite DDG with stable URLs and timestamps Monitor how privacy-engine surfaces sources

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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🔌 Automating DuckDuckGo Search Scraper

Run this Actor on a schedule, from your codebase, or inside another tool:

• Node.js SDK: see Apify JavaScript client for programmatic runs.
• Python SDK: see Apify Python client for the same flow in Python.
• HTTP API: see Apify API docs for raw REST integration.

Schedule daily or weekly runs from the Apify Console. Pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, BigQuery, or your own webhook with the built-in integrations.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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🔌 Integrate with any app

• Make - drop run results into 1,800+ apps.
• Zapier - trigger automations off completed runs.
• Slack - post run summaries to a channel.
• Google Sheets - sync each run into a spreadsheet.
• Webhooks - notify your own services on run finish.
• Airbyte - load runs into Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres.

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🔗 Recommended Actors

• 🅱️ Bing Search Scraper - cross-reference rank shifts on the second-largest Western SERP.
• 📚 Wikipedia Pageviews Scraper - pair rank with public-interest spikes.
• 🕰️ Wayback Machine CDX Scraper - audit historical versions of pages that rank.
• 🐙 GitHub Trending Repos Scraper - capture the developer-attention layer.
• 📰 Substack Publication Scraper - track newsletter content that ranks for your queries.

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more pre-built scrapers and data tools.

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DuckDuckGo is a registered trademark of DuckDuckGo, Inc. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by DuckDuckGo. It reads only publicly visible SERP HTML the same way a normal browser does.