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nickclyde/duckduckgo-mcp-server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search capabilities through DuckDuckGo, with additional features for content fetching and parsing.

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About nickclyde/duckduckgo-mcp-server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI agents to search the web through DuckDuckGo. It also fetches and parses the content of search result pages. No API key is required for the search backend.

Best for

Developers building MCP-compatible AI agents that need web search without API keys

Use cases

  • Adding privacy-respecting web search to MCP-enabled AI agents
  • Fetching and summarizing page content from search results
  • Building a search tool without relying on paid search APIs

Notes

1,199 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-05-08. Licensed MIT.

Pros

  • No API key required for DuckDuckGo search
  • Simple setup as a standard MCP server for agent integration
  • Active open source project with 1,199 stars and community support

Cons

  • Subject to DuckDuckGo rate limits and potential blocking
  • Search results are less comprehensive than Google or Bing
  • Requires MCP-compatible clients, limiting non-MCP use

Key facts

What we have checked

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How to use

How to set it up

As the listing publishes it. We have not run this install.

Install

uvx duckduckgo-mcp-server

Tools exposed

  • search
  • fetch_content

Clients the listing names (not checked here)

Claude Desktop, Claude Code

Example client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ddg-search": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "duckduckgo-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Until then, follow the project's own README, or the setup the listing publishes under How to set it up.

Works with

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Health and security

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Security check static checks

100 out of 100

Reads what is published about the server: package advisories, licence, secrets in the documented setup and tool permissions. Nothing is installed or run, so this is not a security assessment. Checked by edna-static-v1 PyPI:duckduckgo-mcp-server@0.7.0. What it checks

Licence: MIT

  • Note The lab has not recorded this server's tool list yet, so tool permissions were not checked.

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