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If you don't like all the fluff on the results page, DDG provides two alternative interfaces [0] [1] with much simpler layouts. [0] https://html.duckduckgo.com
by zeech 10mo ago
If you don't like all the fluff on the results page, DDG provides two alternative interfaces [0] [1] with much simpler layouts.
[0] https://html.duckduckgo.com/html https://html.duckduckgo.com/html
[1] https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite
- verdverm 10mo agocool, but they block curl requests with an iframe and such I would pay DDG if they gave me an API for search, ideally pay-per-request. I'm not paying them for Ai, I can get that much better elsewhere
- zeech 10mo agoIIRC the reason they don't (can't?) provide a search API directly is because they're pulling from other search sources, e.g. Bing, and can't provide an API without licence violations. Agreed that a DDG API would be pretty great, though.
- Imustaskforhelp 10mo agoIF they wish for an API, I think brave search supports API because they are an independent search index.
- verdverm 10mo agoThere are lots of options outside of the companies that make browsers and search input boxes on websites SERP, EXA, Tavily... they are becoming a dime-a-dozen with the Ai hype b/c (1) making the process of fetch/scraping easier (2) being the primary end user of search API (3) making the creating of such an API easier I haven't dug in enough to any of them to get a sense of result quality or consistency
- Imustaskforhelp 10mo agoThis is my first seeing https://html.duckduckgo.com/html https://html.duckduckgo.com/html and surprisingly I am enjoying it I would prefer if there was a way to have dark mode or similar things in it tho. It was really really fast.