mcp-registry/duckduckgo-mcp-server

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       /// MCP ///
      /// DUC ///
        
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    [server:online]
    [protocol:ready]

duckduckgo-mcp-server

by nickclyde

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that adds DuckDuckGo web-search and content-fetching tools with rate-limiting and LLM-ready formatting.

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search

Performs a web search on DuckDuckGo and returns formatted results containing titles, URLs, and snippets.

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fetch_content

Fetches and parses content from a webpage, returning cleaned and formatted text.

Installation

1. Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/nickclyde/duckduckgo-mcp-server.git cd duckduckgo-mcp-server
2. Create a virtual environment (recommended)
python3 -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
3. Install Python dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt # or, if the project is published on PyPI # pip install duckduckgo-mcp-server
4. (Optional) Environment variables
MCP_PORT=8000 # TCP port the server will listen on (default 8000) MCP_HOST=0.0.0.0 # Bind address (default 127.0.0.1) # No API keys are required because DuckDuckGo does not need authentication.
5. Run the server
uvicorn mcp_server.main:app --host ${MCP_HOST:-0.0.0.0} --port ${MCP_PORT:-8000}
6. Verify
curl "http://localhost:8000/search?q=openai" curl "http://localhost:8000/fetch?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com"

Documentation

License: MIT License
Updated 7/30/2025

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