DDGSearch

A native Go library for DuckDuckGo search functionality. This library provides a simple and efficient way to perform searches using DuckDuckGo's search engine.

Why DuckDuckGo?

DuckDuckGo offers several advantages:

• No Authentication Required: Unlike other search engines, DuckDuckGo's API can be used without any API keys or authentication
• Privacy-focused search results
• No rate limiting for reasonable usage
• Support for multiple regions and languages
• Clean and relevant search results

Features

• Clean and idiomatic Go implementation
• Comprehensive error handling
• Configurable search parameters
• In-memory caching with TTL
• Support for:
  • Multiple regions (us-en, uk-en, de-de, etc.)
  • Safe search levels (strict, moderate, off)
  • Time-based filtering (day, week, month, year)
  • Result pagination
  • Custom HTTP headers
  • Proxy configuration

Installation

go get github.com/kuhahalong/ddgsearch

Quick Start

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "time"

    "github.com/kuhahalong/ddgsearch"
)

func main() {
    // Create a new client with configuration
    cfg := &ddgsearch.Config{
        Timeout:    30 * time.Second,
        MaxRetries: 3,
        Cache:      true,
    }
    client, err := ddgsearch.New(cfg)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    // Configure search parameters
    params := &ddgsearch.SearchParams{
        Query:      "what is golang",
        Region:     ddgsearch.RegionUSEN,
        SafeSearch: ddgsearch.SafeSearchModerate,
        TimeRange:  ddgsearch.TimeRangeMonth,
        MaxResults: 10,
    }

    // Perform search
    response, err := client.Search(context.Background(), params)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    // Print results
    for i, result := range response.Results {
        fmt.Printf("%d. %s\n   URL: %s\n   Description: %s\n\n", 
            i+1, result.Title, result.URL, result.Description)
    }
}

Advanced Usage

Configuration

// Create client with custom configuration
cfg := &ddgsearch.Config{
    Timeout:    20 * time.Second,
    MaxRetries: 3,
    Proxy:      "http://proxy:8080",
    Cache:      true,
    Headers: map[string]string{
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
    },
}
client, err := ddgsearch.New(cfg)

Search Parameters

params := &ddgsearch.SearchParams{
    Query:      "golang tutorial",       // Search query
    Region:     ddgsearch.RegionUSEN,    // Region for results (us-en, uk-en, etc.)
    SafeSearch: ddgsearch.SafeSearchModerate, // Safe search level
    TimeRange:  ddgsearch.TimeRangeWeek, // Time filter
    MaxResults: 10,                      // Maximum results to return
}

Available regions:

• RegionUSEN (United States)
• RegionUKEN (United Kingdom)
• RegionDEDE (Germany)
• RegionFRFR (France)
• RegionJPJP (Japan)
• RegionCNZH (China)
• RegionRURU (Russia)

Safe search levels:

• SafeSearchStrict
• SafeSearchModerate
• SafeSearchOff

Time range options:

• TimeRangeDay
• TimeRangeWeek
• TimeRangeMonth
• TimeRangeYear

Proxy Support

// HTTP proxy
cfg := &ddgsearch.Config{
    Proxy: "http://proxy:8080",
}
client, err := ddgsearch.New(cfg)

// SOCKS5 proxy
cfg := &ddgsearch.Config{
    Proxy: "socks5://proxy:1080",
}
client, err := ddgsearch.New(cfg)

Command Line Interface

The library includes a command-line interface (CLI) tool for easy access to DuckDuckGo search functionality.

Installation

go install github.com/kuhahalong/ddgsearch/cmd/ddgs@latest

Usage

# Basic text search
ddgs search "golang programming"

# Search news
ddgs news "golang 1.21"

For more information, see README.md

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit issues and pull requests.

Development Setup

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/kuhahalong/ddgsearch.git

2. Install dependencies

go mod tidy

3. Run tests

go test ./...

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.