DUCKDUCKGO(1)

👑 DUCKDUCKGO 💅

okay so bestie, lemme put you on to something. this is duckduckgo, a command line tool that talks to the DuckDuckGo API, and it's genuinely so useful. it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, which is exactly where you'd expect a lil Perl gift like this to hang out. 🦆✨

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.008 — yes queen, we know exactly which one we're on. no guessing, no vibes-based versioning. 💖

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✨ SYNPOSIS ✨

(and yes, the original really does spell it like that, we're keeping it, it's part of the charm 🎀)

duckduckgo facebook

duckduckgo --batch facebook

duckduckgo duck duck go

three whole moods. one query, one batch query, and one query that's literally just the words duck duck go handed over one by one. slay. 🦋

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, bestie: this application queries the DuckDuckGo API at http://www.duckduckgo.com/api.html and shows you the result in a nice human-readable way. or, if you'd rather, it can do it in a batch mode — which is the whole point if you're a shellscript trying to automatically work with the DuckDuckGo API results. 🤖💅

• --batch — tells the application to display the data in a more machine readable form. it's giving "for the scripts, not the humans". 🙈
• --forcesecure — tells the application to not fall back to http if the https request failed. so like, security on, no take-backs, no sneaky downgrade. 👑

⚠️ real talk though: the startup of the application takes some milliseconds longer cause of the compile overhead by Moose. it's the price of admission, bestie. 💀

and if you're planning to fire off a huge bunch of queries? the manual itself says you should consider Learning Perl at http://learn.perl.org/ — and honestly, best directly the modern way, with the free Modern Perl Book at http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html, which is also available as a PDF at http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/modern_perl_letter.pdf. 📚✨

then you can use the distribution WWW::DuckDuckGo directly, to do faster a bigger amount of queries. iconic. main character energy. no cap. 🔥

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Torsten Raudssus <torsten@raudssus.de> — say thank you, they deserve it. 🌸

📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

this software is copyright (c) 2013 by DuckDuckGo Inc. at https://duckduckgo.com/. 🦆

and it's free software, bestie — you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so go off, respectfully. 💖

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okay that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs. 👑

perl v5.42.0 · 2025-07-25 · DUCKDUCKGO(1) — mwah, that's the version and date, love you, bye! 💅🎀🦋