Programatic Web Search

Tl;DR

This is not scrapping.

But programmatic live web search, like the local deep researcher does with DDG.

Intro

I forked a project that was not only doing programatic web search, but also using agents.

Cool stuff.

But the DDG part I didnt have the change to play with.

Web Search with Python

Google

https://pypi.org/project/googlesearch-python/

duckduckgo_search

You will see this one called DDG in many places.

And as we saw here, it does not require an API key (at least for now).

• https://github.com/deedy5/duckduckgo_search
• https://pypi.org/project/duckduckgo-search/

Conclusions

There are even programatic browsers, like Lynx:

Outro

Serp API

Scrape Google and other search engines from our fast, easy, and complete API.

• https://serpapi.com/pricing

google-flight-analysis

You can also search for the best flights with python an google flights

• https://pypi.org/project/google-flight-analysis

Interesting Related Stuff to Python Search

• https://github.com/premthomas/Ollama-and-Agents

Implementing Ollama and Agents to create a blogging bot (Prem Eapen decided to use duckduckgo_search )