How many articles come back per request?

As many as DuckDuckGo returns for the page, often 20 to 30. One page costs 1 credit regardless of how many articles it holds.

Does DuckDuckGo have a search API?

DuckDuckGo's own Instant Answer API returns topic summaries, not the web results list. SerpKite reads DuckDuckGo's public results and returns the full list as JSON. It is not affiliated with DuckDuckGo.

Are DuckDuckGo web results from Bing?

Largely, yes. DuckDuckGo's organic web results come mostly from Bing's index, which is why engine=consensus counts DuckDuckGo and Bing as one index. News, images and videos come from DuckDuckGo's own feeds.

How much does a DuckDuckGo search cost?

1 credit per page, the same as Google, from $0.60 per 1,000. Failed, blocked and empty requests are free.

POST /v1/news · engine=duckduckgo

DuckDuckGo News API

DuckDuckGo's news results for any query, with exact publish timestamps, full snippets and images.

Updated Oct 25, 2026

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1 credit per page of results 2,500 free credits, no card Failed calls are free

Overview

What the DuckDuckGo News API does

DuckDuckGo's web results come largely from Bing's index; its news, images and videos come from its own feeds. Use it for DuckDuckGo's results without scraping it yourself, or as a fallback with broad image and video coverage.

/v1/news with engine: "duckduckgo" returns DuckDuckGo's news results: title, link, domain, source, a full snippet, published_at as an exact UTC timestamp, and image_url.

What you get

results[] array: Articles: position, title, link, domain, source, snippet, date as shown, published_at (ISO 8601) and image_url.
meta object: request_id, credits_used, cached, latency_ms, parse_quality, engine (the provider that answered) and route (each provider attempt with outcome and ms).

Request

POST /v1/news

cURL

Python

TypeScript

fetch

PHP

curl https://api.serpkite.com/v1/news \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPKITE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"electric vehicles","engine":"duckduckgo"}'

Response (live response, trimmed)

200 OK · DuckDuckGo news · live response, trimmed

{
  "request": {
    "country": "us",
    "endpoint": "news",
    "engine": "duckduckgo",
    "language": "en",
    "num": 10,
    "page": 1,
    "q": "electric vehicles"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-23T17:00:00Z",
      "domain": "autos.yahoo.com",
      "image_url": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/642d7021d582c422a74398e24e3bc7cbe5ce08a403733de0a0d4f60c5a1ba63f/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%…",
      "link": "https://autos.yahoo.com/ownership/articles/6-electric-vehicles-highest-repair-170023673.html",
      "position": 1,
      "published_at": "2026-10-23T17:00:00Z",
      "snippet": "Electric vehicles can save money on fuel, but repairs can get expensive. Here are six EVs with high repair costs that could hit your budget hard.",
      "source": "YAHOO!",
      "title": "6 Electric Vehicles With the Highest Repair Costs"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-19T22:06:00Z",
      "domain": "theatlantic.com",
      "image_url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/oqaQjRqEyNsRd7KTlYXGFL5sxB4=/0x85:3994x2165/1200x625/media/img/mt/2026/10/2026_10_15_America_Has_Lost_the_Plot_on_Electric_Cars_Andrew_Moseman/original.jpg",
      "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/americans-not-buying-electric-cars/689071/",
      "position": 2,
      "published_at": "2026-10-19T22:06:00Z",
      "snippet": "For the first time since the dawn of the automobile, the majority of new cars are not powered exclusively by gasoline: So far in 2026, electric vehicles and hybrids are outselling traditional gas-powered cars.",
      "source": "The Atlantic",
      "title": "Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01J8ZK4M6Q2V7",
    "credits_used": 1,
    "cached": false,
    "engine": "duckduckgo",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "duckduckgo",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 1898
      }
    ],
    "latency_ms": 1945,
    "parse_quality": "ok"
  }
}

Every response also carries X-Credits-Used, X-Credits-Remaining, X-Cache and X-Tokens-Estimate headers. Run this query in the playground

One key, many engines

DuckDuckGo through SerpKite

Same key, same envelope and the same SDK call as Google: only engine changes.
meta.engine names the provider that answered and meta.route lists every attempt. A result is never relabelled.
engine: "auto" keeps Google first and falls back to DuckDuckGo and the other engines only when Google fails. How fallback works
Failed, blocked and empty attempts are free; you pay only for the provider that answered.

Everything DuckDuckGo serves on SerpKite

DuckDuckGo Search API POST /v1/search · engine=duckduckgo
DuckDuckGo News API POST /v1/news · engine=duckduckgo
DuckDuckGo Image Search API POST /v1/images · engine=duckduckgo
DuckDuckGo Video Search API POST /v1/videos · engine=duckduckgo

See all engines on the multi-engine search page or in the providers reference.

engine=auto answered by DuckDuckGo (illustrative)

meta.route

{
  "request": {
    "endpoint": "news",
    "engine": "auto",
    "q": "electric vehicles"
  },
  "meta": {
    "engine": "duckduckgo",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "google",
        "outcome": "blocked",
        "ms": 2140
      },
      {
        "provider": "duckduckgo",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 640
      }
    ]
  }
}

Measured Oct 25, 2026

How DuckDuckGo behaves on this endpoint

Three queries ("federal reserve", "electric vehicles", "champions league") sent to /v1/news with engine=duckduckgo through the production API.

Articles per page: 25 to 26
Median response time: 2.2 s
Fields on every article: title, link, source, date, published_at and snippet
Articles with an image: 45%
Publishers: 19 different sources among 24 articles for "federal reserve"

Filters and limits

News comes from DuckDuckGo's JSON news feed, which needs a per-query token. SerpKite gets the token for you; it's reused for later pages of the same query.
time works for day, week, month and year. time: "hour" and custom date ranges are a 400 invalid_request and aren't charged.
country and language pick one of DuckDuckGo's regions, such as de-de or ca-fr. A country without a DuckDuckGo region searches worldwide.
published_at is an exact UTC timestamp from the feed, not a relative date like "3 hours ago".

Reference

Parameters

The parameters /v1/news accepts, in the JSON body or the query string.

DuckDuckGo News API parameters
Name	Type	Default	Description
`q` required	string	–	The search query. Required. Up to 2,048 characters.
`engine`	string \| string[]	google	"duckduckgo" for this page. "auto" tries Google first and falls back to other engines; a list such as ["google", "duckduckgo"] limits the route to those engines.
`country`	string	us	Country to search from, as a two-letter ISO code (us, gb, de, in…). Defaults to the country a location ends in.
`language`	string	en	Interface language, as a language code with an optional region (en, de, pt-BR, zh-TW…).
`page`	integer	1	Results page, 1–10. Each page is billed separately.
`format`	string	json	Response format. markdown is LLM-ready prose; compact is JSON with only the fields agents need. Values: json, compact, markdown.
`fields`	string	–	Comma-separated projection, e.g. results.title,results.link,knowledge_graph. Cuts tokens.
`max_age`	integer	–	Accept a cached result up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 50% of the credits.

Full reference, error codes and headers are in the /v1/news reference. Queue up to 100 requests at half price with POST /v1/batches.

Use cases

What people build with the DuckDuckGo News API

Media search

DuckDuckGo images and videos return large result sets per page, with dimensions, durations and channels.

Fallback for agents

engine=auto answers from DuckDuckGo when Google and the engines before it are unavailable.

Privacy-minded products

Show DuckDuckGo's results in a product that promises users a non-Google source.

Pricing