DuckDuckGo Search via webfetch
SkillSearchLets your agent run a free web search through DuckDuckGo without needing any API key.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
Then ask your AI: use the DuckDuckGo Search via webfetch skill
About this skill
Web search without an API key using DuckDuckGo Lite via web_fetch. Use as a fallback when web_search fails with missing_brave_api_key error, or whenever you need to search the web and no search API is configured. Provides titles, URLs, and snippets for research queries. Zero dependencies, works wit
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thesyart/claude-agent-examples in skills/ddg-web-search-1.0.0/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Search the web using DuckDuckGo Lite's HTML interface, parsed via web_fetch. No API key or package install required.
How to Search
web_fetch(url="https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=QUERY", extractMode="text", maxChars=8000)
- URL-encode the query — use
+for spaces - Use
extractMode="text"(not markdown) for clean results - Increase
maxCharsfor more results
Region Filtering
Append &kl=REGION for regional results:
au-en— Australiaus-en— United Statesuk-en— United Kingdomde-de— Germanyfr-fr— France
Full list: https://duckduckgo.com/params
Example — Australian search
web_fetch(url="https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=best+coffee+melbourne&kl=au-en", extractMode="text", maxChars=8000)
Reading Results
Results appear as numbered items with title, snippet, and URL. Skip entries marked "Sponsored link" (ads) — organic results follow.
Search-then-Fetch Pattern
- Search — query DDG Lite for a list of results
- Pick — identify the most relevant URLs
- Fetch — use
web_fetchon those URLs to read full content
Tips
- First 1-2 results may be ads — skip to organic results
- For exact phrases, wrap in quotes:
q=%22exact+phrase%22 - Add specific terms to narrow results (site name, year, location)
Limitations
- No time/date filtering (DDG Lite doesn't support
&df=reliably via fetch) - Text results only — no images or videos
- Results sourced from Bing (may differ from Google)
- Google search does NOT work via web_fetch (captcha blocked)
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 399
- Forks
- 99
- Last commit
- Jul 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
ddg-search- Source
- github.com/thesyart/claude-agent-examples