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IIRC 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 with
by zeech 10mo ago
IIRC 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