Limnoria/plugins/DDG

Documentation for the DDG plugin for Supybot

Purpose

Searches for results on DuckDuckGo's web search.

Usage

Searches for results on DuckDuckGo.

Example:

<+GLolol> %ddg search eiffel tower
<@Atlas> The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower>

Commands

search <text>

Searches for <text> on DuckDuckGo's web search.

Configuration

supybot.plugins.DDG.maxResults

This config variable defaults to "4", is network-specific, and is channel-specific.

Determines the maximum number of results the bot will respond with.

supybot.plugins.DDG.public

This config variable defaults to "True", is not network-specific, and is not channel-specific.

Determines whether this plugin is publicly visible.

supybot.plugins.DDG.region

This config variable defaults to "", is network-specific, and is channel-specific.

Set the DDG search region to return results for the language/country of your choice. E.g. 'us-en' for United States. https://duckduckgo.com/params

supybot.plugins.DDG.searchFilter

This config variable defaults to "moderate", is network-specific, and is channel-specific.

Determines what level of search filtering to use by default. 'active' - most filtering, 'moderate' - default filtering, 'off' - no filtering Valid strings: active, moderate, and off.

supybot.plugins.DDG.showSnippet

This config variable defaults to "True", is network-specific, and is channel-specific.

Determines whether the bot will show a snippet of each resulting link. If False, it will show the title of the link instead.