npm install -g duckduckgo-websearch
# or
npx duckduckgo-websearch

npm install duckduckgo-websearch

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ddg-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["duckduckgo-websearch"]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ddg-search": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/duckduckgo-mcp-server/build/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Found 25 search results:

1. Page Title
   URL: https://example.com/page
   Summary: Brief description of the page content...

2. ...

import { WebSearch, WebFetcher } from 'duckduckgo-websearch';

// Search
const searcher = new WebSearch();

// Basic search — returns up to 10 results (1 page)
const results = await searcher.search('claude anthropic');

// Request more results — auto-paginates across multiple DDG pages
const results = await searcher.search('python tutorial', { maxResults: 50 });

// Advanced query syntax works natively in the query string
const results = await searcher.search('site:github.com mcp server typescript');
const results = await searcher.search('site:docs.python.org OR site:realpython.com async await');

// Format for LLM consumption
console.log(searcher.formatResultsForLLM(results));

// Fetch webpage content
const fetcher = new WebFetcher();
const content = await fetcher.fetchAndParse('https://example.com', 8000);

interface SearchResult {
  title: string;
  link: string;
  snippet: string;
  position: number;
}

import { WebSearch, SearchError } from 'duckduckgo-websearch';

try {
  const results = await searcher.search('query');
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof SearchError) {
    console.error(err.code); // 'BOT_DETECTED' | 'HTTP_ERROR' | 'TIMEOUT' | 'UNKNOWN'
    console.error(err.message);
  }
}

git clone https://github.com/HeiSir2014/duckduckgo-mcp-server
cd duckduckgo-mcp-server

npm install
npm run build          # compile TypeScript → build/

# Run example test (Bun)
bun example/test.ts

# Run with Node
node -e "require('./build/index.js')"

src/
├── index.ts              # MCP server entry, tool definitions
├── duckduckgoSearcher.ts # Search logic: fetch, bot detection, retry, pagination
├── cookieJar.ts          # In-memory cookie jar for DDG session persistence
├── webContentFetcher.ts  # Webpage fetch + text extraction
├── rateLimiter.ts        # Token-bucket rate limiter
└── types.ts              # Shared types (SearchResult, SearchOptions, SearchError)