No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
duckduckgo-search has 5.5M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 8.1.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2021.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2025.
It is built on top of click, lxml and primp. It is used by 348 tracked packages, including gpt-researcher, langroid and flowtask.
GitHub topics include search, metasearch and ddgs.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 321 days despite active commits
- Moderate bus factor: only 5 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
72
Adoption
70
Community
25
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
44 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,508,049
Active
Activity within 30 days
•
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
5,508,049
Stars
2,793
Stars per 1k downloads
0.51
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
•
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
183,437
Month daily avg
183,602
Momentum
-0.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT License
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
365 days ago
Total releases
185
Releases/year
35.6
•
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
5
Monthly downloads
5,508,049
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
•
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
47
Issue Burden
3.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
321d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
139.2K
Windows
6.7K
macOS
1.6K
Python Versions
3.11
68.1%
99.2K
3.12
18.5%
27.0K
3.13
5.5%
7.9K
3.14
4.7%
6.8K
3.10
3.2%
4.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
68.4K
US
2.
JP
10.6K
JP
3.
IN
6.7K
IN
4.
SG
5.9K
SG
5.
DE
5.0K
DE
6.
KR
4.7K
KR
7.
BR
4.2K
BR
8.
GB
3.9K
GB
9.
FR
3.9K
FR
10.
ES
3.8K
ES
Used By
348
- gpt-researcher
- langroid
- flowtask
- local-deep-research
- npcsh
- feral-ai
- npcpy
- teambot-ai
- arifos
- aient
- open-deep-research
- effgen
- modelmerge
- lagent
- emdash-core
- loop-chat
- synapse-orch-ai
- liteauto
- omnime
- nucleus-mcp
- reflexio-ai
- openlama
- myra-ai-assistant
- know-do-graph
- simplerllm
- plexflow
- cneura-ai
- synapse-assistant-ai
- langgraph-agent-toolkit
- atksh-utils
- ws-bom-robot-app
- bioimageio-chatbot
- flexrag
- agnoclaw
- wdoc
- agentuniverse
- hjxdl
- boring-aicoding
- nebula-ai
- vibesurf
- ailoos
- napari-chatgpt
- llama-index-tools-duckduckgo
- sherlock-context
- pikoai
- quantalogic
- web-research-mcp
- iointel
- 42towels
- dspygen
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
April 25, 2021
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
8.1.1
Total Releases
185
Contributors
5
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
deedy5
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh