API Parameters

We've made it so you can easily customise your request by simply adding query parameters to your request, hence spending less time coding and more time manipulating the scraped data.

IMPORTANT! The engine parameter should always be set to duckduckgo for this API!

Being part of the SERP API suite, the DuckDuckGo engine uses query parameters for customizing results. Below is a full list of supported parameters that you may pass to the base URL in order to get the most suited results from DuckDuckGo:

Parameter	Type	Description
api_key Required	string	The API key required to authorize requests.
engine Required	string	The engine of the SERP API. Needs to be set to duckduckgo for requests to DuckDuckGo.
q Required	string	The terms that you are searching for (the query).m
kl	string	Country and language code used to define the country and language of search. You can find the full list here.
kad	string	Language of the search page interface: buttons, menu. You can find a list with all the available markets here.
kp	int	Removes adult content from search results. Available values are: 1 - Turn on safe search -1 - Moderate search content -2 - Turn off safe search
df	string	Time range to search. Available values are: d - Past 2 weeks w - Past month m - Past 3 months w - Past 6 months