Do I get view counts?

Not currently. Each video has its title, link, channel, duration, dates, description and thumbnail.

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/videos · engine=duckduckgo

DuckDuckGo Video Search API

DuckDuckGo's video results with channel, duration, exact publish date, full description and thumbnail for each video.

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 Video Search 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/videos with engine: "duckduckgo" returns DuckDuckGo's video results: title, link, domain, source, channel, duration, published_at, the video's description as snippet, and an image_url thumbnail. A page often holds 50 or more videos.

What you get

results[] array: Videos: position, title, link, domain, source (e.g. YouTube), channel, duration, date / published_at, snippet 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/videos

cURL

Python

TypeScript

fetch

PHP

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

Response (live response, trimmed)

200 OK · DuckDuckGo videos · live response, trimmed

{
  "request": {
    "country": "us",
    "endpoint": "videos",
    "engine": "duckduckgo",
    "language": "en",
    "num": 10,
    "page": 1,
    "q": "espresso tutorial"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "channel": "Dero_De_Barista",
      "date": "2023-07-31T12:55:58.0000000",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "duration": "3:20",
      "image_url": "https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th/id/OVP.1f82q3uUBIwBq_wtKh_6swHgFo?pid=Api",
      "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSE-3sPJsOM",
      "position": 1,
      "published_at": "2023-07-31T12:55:58Z",
      "snippet": "As barista Brewing great espresso can be really simple by following these basic guidelines. In this video i guide you though a full gide on how you can make a perfect espresso as a beginner barista bu…",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "title": "The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Perfect Espresso Shot as beginner barista"
    },
    {
      "channel": "Joshua Weissman",
      "date": "2019-10-24T16:00:08.0000000",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "duration": "7:36",
      "image_url": "https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th/id/OVP.tCQwAuzqN1qPeOugBQsp3gHgFo?pid=Api",
      "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQu12vMQZM",
      "position": 2,
      "published_at": "2019-10-24T16:00:08Z",
      "snippet": "Get 50% OFF your first bag of coffee with Trade Coffee when you click here http://bit.ly/tradeweissman and use my code WEISSMAN50 + https://shop-links.co/1731311682878966983 Brewing great espresso jus…",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "title": "The Espresso Guide For Beginners"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01J8ZK4M6Q2V7",
    "credits_used": 1,
    "cached": false,
    "engine": "duckduckgo",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "duckduckgo",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 2288
      }
    ],
    "latency_ms": 2320,
    "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": "videos",
    "engine": "auto",
    "q": "espresso tutorial"
  },
  "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 ("espresso tutorial", "rust async explained", "how to tie a bowline") sent to /v1/videos with engine=duckduckgo through the production API, and four more to count video hosts.

Videos per page: 46 to 58
Median response time: 2.7 s
Fields on every video: title, link, source, channel, duration, date, published_at and the image_url thumbnail
Videos with a description: 99%
Where the videos are hosted: 207 of 218 (95%) on YouTube, 6 on TikTok and 5 on MSN

Filters and limits

time works for day, week and month. hour and year are a 400 invalid_request and aren't charged: DuckDuckGo's video feed has neither filter.
Custom date ranges aren't supported on videos either.
Videos come from DuckDuckGo's JSON video feed, which needs a per-query token. SerpKite gets the token for you.
country and language pick one of DuckDuckGo's regions; a country without one searches worldwide.

Reference

Parameters

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

DuckDuckGo Video Search 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/videos reference. Queue up to 100 requests at half price with POST /v1/batches.

Use cases

What people build with the DuckDuckGo Video Search 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