Duckduckscrape

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A lightweight CLI that provides agents with web search powers via DuckDuckGo.

Install

npx -y skills add rafaelpierre/duckduckscrape --skill duckduckscrape

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Lightweight web search via DuckDuckGo with BM25 relevance ranking. Use when asked to search the web, look something up, find recent information, research a topic, or browse the internet. Trigger phrases: search the web, look up, find information about, google, browse the web, web search, find recent, what is the latest on.

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DuckDuckScrape

Lightweight DuckDuckGo web search tool with BM25 relevance ranking. Results are fetched concurrently over HTTP/2 and re-ranked by content relevance.

Usage

# Basic search — returns top 5 results ranked by BM25
duckduckscrape search "your query"

# Preferred for agent use: clean JSON on stdout, progress on stderr
duckduckscrape search "your query" --output json

# Control number of results
duckduckscrape search "your query" -k 3

# Fast mode: skip full-page fetching (uses only DDG snippets, no BM25 re-ranking)
duckduckscrape search "your query" --no-fetch

# Filter by recency (d=past day, w=past week, m=past month, y=past year)
duckduckscrape search "breaking news" --time-filter d

# Filter by region
duckduckscrape search "local elections" --region us-en

# Tune concurrency and per-request timeout
duckduckscrape search "your query" --concurrency 8 --timeout 15

JSON output schema

Each element in the returned array contains:

Field	Type	Description
`title`	string	Page title
`url`	string	Full URL
`display_url`	string	Shortened display URL
`snippet`	string	DuckDuckGo result snippet
`content`	string or null	Extracted main-body text (null when --no-fetch)
`bm25_score`	number	BM25 relevance score (present when ranking is active)

Notes

Progress logs go to stderr; clean JSON goes to stdout. Pipe stdout for programmatic use; stderr can be discarded or logged separately.
PDFs are automatically skipped during content fetching.
BM25 filtering removes results with zero relevance to the query.
Use --no-fetch for a fast, low-cost keyword search without content extraction.