DuckDuckGo Search Tool

This tool enables agents to search and retrieve results from the DuckDuckGo search engine. It utilizes the duckduckgo_search package, which either fetches instant query answers from DuckDuckGo or conducts a full search and parses the results.

Usage

This tool has a more extensive example usage documented in a Jupyter notebook here

Here's an example usage of the DuckDuckGoSearchToolSpec.

python

from llama_index.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGoSearchToolSpec
from llama_index.core.agent.workflow import FunctionAgent
from llama_index.llms.openai import OpenAI

tool_spec = DuckDuckGoSearchToolSpec()

agent = FunctionAgent(
    tools=DuckDuckGoSearchToolSpec.to_tool_list(),
    llm=OpenAI(model="gpt-4.1"),
)

print(await agent.run("What's going on with the superconductor lk-99"))
print(await agent.run("what are the latest developments in machine learning"))

Available tool functions:

duckduckgo_instant_search: Make a query to DuckDuckGo api to receive an instant answer.
duckduckgo_full_search: Make a query to DuckDuckGo search to receive a full search results.