DuckDuckGo stitches Bing links, its own DuckDuckBot crawl and Instant Answers from over 100 sources into a page that tracks nobody. We turn that page into rows by region and keyword.
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ScrapeIt builds the DuckDuckGo scraper, hosts it and answers for its output. DuckDuckGo scraping fails quietly: the site screens incoming traffic for malicious bots, and a collector that only asks whether a page loaded will happily store result pages with the organic block missing. We check every capture for substance instead: organic rows present, the right kl region on the request, Instant Answer, Search Assist and ad blocks marked present or absent. Anti-bot handling, proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving are included, with egress in the country each region belongs to.
The first delivery is a sample for your sign-off. Production runs follow on the cadence you choose, from hourly checks during a launch to a monthly market sweep.
We extract DuckDuckGo data block by block, because each block has its own supplier and its own shape.
Every row also carries the query, kl region, safe search level, date filter and capture time, since those inputs decide what the page shows.
The ScrapeIt DuckDuckGo search API serves every block above as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set: organic links, sponsored links, news, images, videos, Search Assist sources and Instant Answers. For those answers it doubles as an Instant Answer API, with answer type, answer text, the named source and its link for every query that shows one. Access is by your own DuckDuckGo API key from ScrapeIt, and DuckDuckGo API documentation for every field comes with the dataset. The rows are plain JSON, so a DuckDuckGo search API Python script on your side needs nothing beyond a standard HTTP client.
DuckDuckGo bangs change what a query is. A query carrying a site bang such as !w or !a never produces a DuckDuckGo result page; it redirects to that site's own search, adjusted to the chosen region, and a leading backslash jumps straight to the first result. The directory held 13,566 bangs at the end of September 2026, so keyword lists are screened for them before a run.
DuckDuckGo is a private search engine run by Duck Duck Go, Inc., an independent company majority-owned by founder Gabriel Weinberg and team members. A DuckDuckGo scraper has to follow how the company itself describes the page, because the page is assembled from several suppliers. Traditional links and images are largely sourced from Bing. DuckDuckGo also runs its own crawler, DuckDuckBot, maintains many indexes, and fills DuckDuckGo Instant Answers from over 100 sources, Sportradar for scores and Wikipedia for topic summaries among them. Apple supplies maps, Microsoft Advertising most ads, Tripadvisor hotel ads and Yelp local business ads. Google is not a source.
DuckDuckGo describes a result page as three sections: Instant Answers, usually on top; organic links with image, news and video modules woven in; and sponsored links. Search Assist, an AI answer that cites one or two sources, appears as often as the visitor's setting allows. The main page runs on JavaScript: its HTML carries no organic links, which a script loads after the page opens, passing the region on as a Bing market code.
For browsers without JavaScript DuckDuckGo keeps two lighter versions, DuckDuckGo HTML and DuckDuckGo Lite, with fewer features. They are the lightest target for DuckDuckGo web scraping: a DuckDuckGo HTML scraper collects rank, title, destination URL and snippet from them. Two more hosts change the page: noai.duckduckgo.com drops Search Assist, Duck.ai prompts and AI images, and safe.duckduckgo.com locks safe search to strict.
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Full plan details →Put DuckDuckGo results vs Google side by side and the inputs differ before the ranks do. DuckDuckGo keeps no search history and bases ads on the page being viewed rather than on a profile, so one capture for a query, region and safe search setting is close to what every visitor there sees, shifted only by the approximate location guessed from the connection. That is a clean baseline for share of voice.
Supply is the second difference. Most organic links come from Bing, so a DuckDuckGo position reads best beside the Bing position in the matching market, and the gap between the two is the signal: Instant Answers on top, DuckDuckGo's own indexes, its news quality factor and spam demotion all move links. DuckDuckGo is also literal. It says it tries to be very exact where other engines rewrite the query, so misspellings and variants need rows of their own. It prints no result count either, so competition is measured from the rows, not from an estimate.
Third, nothing else reports it. DuckDuckGo passes no search terms to the sites people click, offers no webmaster console and sends even removal requests to Bing. Search Assist adds a second layer: DuckAssistBot fetches its sources in real time, and a publisher can block it without any effect on organic rank, so a brand can hold the first organic slot and still be missing from the answer. A DuckDuckGo search scraper is the only record of either. Personal data stays out: no names, contact details or anything else that points to a private individual.
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Because DuckDuckGo's organic links are largely Bing's, we tell you up front when a Bing feed in the same market already covers the question, and when only the DuckDuckGo page, with its Instant Answers and its own ad load, will do.
Yes, we offer one. The ScrapeIt DuckDuckGo API returns organic rank, titles, destination URLs, snippets, Instant Answers and sponsored links as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set, so it works as a DuckDuckGo search engine results API for your own tools. The same data also comes as CSV or XLSX files or straight into your database. On DuckDuckGo API pricing, the project assessment is free, and plans start from EUR 169 a month, or EUR 199 for a one-time extract.
Mostly Bing, plus its own. DuckDuckGo states that most organic links and images are sourced from Bing, that it runs its own crawler, DuckDuckBot, and many indexes, and that Instant Answers come from over 100 specialized sources. It does not use Google; YouTube videos reach the page through indirect sources. Apple supplies maps and Microsoft most ads. In practice a removal granted by Bing flows through to DuckDuckGo, and DuckDuckGo and Bing positions for the same market are worth tracking together.
Region is set by the kl parameter, written country first and language second: us-en, uk-en, de-de, fr-fr, and wt-wt for all regions. The codes are DuckDuckGo's own, uk rather than gb for Britain and xa-ar for Saudi Arabia, and several countries split by language, such as be-fr and be-nl or us-en and us-es. On the organic request each region travels as a Bing market code, de-de as de-DE and uk-en as en-GB, while wt-wt still asks for en-US. We take codes from the live region picker, which already differs from the older help page list, and run each region as its own job.
We load the page as a visitor in that region would, with egress in the matching country, because DuckDuckGo guesses location from the connection for local results and ads. Each keyword runs per kl region, safe search level and device, with ads left on and the Search Assist setting recorded. Files arrive as CSV, JSON or XLSX, or through an endpoint you query, landing in S3, on SFTP, behind a webhook or in your warehouse. The default table has one row per block element, keyed by capture time, keyword, region and rank.
Yes. We collect only publicly available data - what any visitor sees on a DuckDuckGo results page: organic links with titles, URLs and snippets, Instant Answers, Search Assist sources, news, images, videos and sponsored links - and we collect it legally. Personal data is left out of every run.
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