duckduckgo-search

You can perform free web search without an API key by using DuckDuckGo discovery to retrieve relevant snippets and URLs for research queries. This approach fits general research, current-events discovery, and finding images or tutorial videos without paid APIs.

Yes, DuckDuckGo search supports discovering images and videos alongside general text and news results. It uses the `ddgs` CLI for reliable multimedia discovery, or falls back to the Python DDGS library after confirming it exists in the active runtime.

Using the ddgs CLI is the primary method for reliable DuckDuckGo search, but it is not strictly required. The Skill supports a Python fallback using the `ddgs` library, but only after confirming the package is available in the target execute_code runtime.

The best way to get full page content is a search-then-extract workflow: use DuckDuckGo search to retrieve snippets and URLs first, then use separate extraction tools to obtain the full page content from those URLs when needed.

DuckDuckGo search in the Python runtime fails if the `ddgs` package is not installed. The Skill requires confirming the package exists in the active `execute_code` runtime before attempting to use the Python DDGS interface for web, news, images, or video discovery.