ddgs-search

Why This Skill?

🆓 Completely free — no API keys, no subscriptions, no rate limits, no billing surprises.

🔍 8 search engines in one — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yandex, Yahoo, Wikipedia, and Mojeek. Switch engines with a single flag. Most search skills only support one.

🎓 Built-in arXiv research search — search academic papers directly via arXiv's free API. Returns authors, categories, abstracts, and publication dates. Perfect for researchers, students, and AI/ML practitioners.

🔌 Drop-in replacement — outputs web-search-plus compatible JSON, so it works with any skill or tool that expects that format. Zero config migration.

⚡ Lightweight — single pip package, no browser automation, no headless Chrome. Searches complete in 1-3 seconds.

Install

python3 scripts/install.py