DuckDuckGo MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides DuckDuckGo search capabilities and web content fetching.

Origin

This server was copied from nickclyde/duckduckgo-mcp-server on GitHub.

Features

Web Search: Search DuckDuckGo and return formatted results
Content Fetching: Fetch and parse webpage content from URLs
Rate limiting to prevent overwhelming services
Runs as an MCP server on port 9870

Building

Build the container using the Makefile:

make

Or directly with Docker/Podman:

docker build -t ddg-mcp-server:0.1.0 .

Running

Run the container exposing port 9870:

docker run -p 9870:9870 ddg-mcp-server:0.1.0

MCP Tools

The server provides two MCP tools:

search: Search DuckDuckGo and return formatted results
- query: The search query string
- max_results: Maximum number of results to return (default: 10)
fetch_content: Fetch and parse content from a webpage URL
- url: The webpage URL to fetch content from

Dependencies

Python 3.12
mcp (Model Context Protocol)
httpx (async HTTP client)
beautifulsoup4 (HTML parsing)

CI/CD

The repository includes GitHub Actions workflows for:

Pull request testing (builds the container)
Release deployment (builds and pushes to Docker Hub)

This server cannot be installed

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How are these scores calculated?

remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

Enables web searching through DuckDuckGo and fetching content from webpages. Provides search capabilities with configurable result limits and webpage content extraction for AI assistants.

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