DuckDuckGo Search Scraper

Scrapes organic search results from DuckDuckGo for any query. Extracts page title, URL, displayed URL, domain, snippet, sitelinks, thumbnail, ratings, dates, rich result type, and more.

What this Actor collects

The Actor converts DuckDuckGo organic results into one clean JSON record per result, including title, canonical and displayed URLs, domain, snippet, rich-result metadata when present, page position, locale, and search provenance.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 50-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• Search and competitor research
• Ranking and visibility monitoring
• Dataset and workflow enrichment

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied. The Default / example column shows a schema default when one exists; otherwise it shows a documented prefill or fixture value.

Field	Type	Required	Default / example	Description
query	string	Yes	"artificial intelligence"	The search query to look up on DuckDuckGo.
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum number of search results to scrape.
region	string	No	"us-en"	DuckDuckGo region code for localized results (e.g. 'us-en', 'uk-en', 'in-en', 'de-de').
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":true}	Proxy settings for the scraper.
maxRequestRetries	integer	No	2	Retries for initial and next-page navigation failures.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	No	45	Maximum seconds to wait for each DuckDuckGo Lite page.
headless	boolean	No	true	Run Firefox without a visible window.

Example input

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "region": "us-en",
  "maxRequestRetries": 2,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 45,
  "headless": true
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per organic search result. The following are the most useful fields; rich-result, rating, price, date, and media fields appear only when DuckDuckGo exposes them.

Field	Type	Description
position	integer	Position
title	string	Title
link	string	Link
displayedUrl	string	Displayed URL
domain	string	Domain
snippet	string	Snippet
publishedAt	string	Published At
rating	number	Rating
ratingCount	integer	Rating Count
reviewCount	integer	Review Count
price	string	Price
priceNumeric	number	Price Numeric
currency	string	Currency
richResultType	string	Rich Result Type
page	integer	Page
searchQuery	string	Search Query

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia",
  "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "displayedUrl": "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "domain": "en.wikipedia.org",
  "snippet": "Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving…",
  "page": 1,
  "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence",
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-23T17:27:22.442Z",
  "type": "organic"
}

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