Engine stats - duckduckgo

Engine name

Scores

Result count

Response time

Reliability

duckduckgo

1.1

0.9

	Total	HTTP	Processing
Median	0.9	0.9	0.0
P80	1.0	1.0	0.0
P95	1.2	1.1	0.1

Errors and exceptions

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	45
Parameter	CAPTCHA (us-en) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	/nix/store/gg36sf244flzblj9j65zx5341biab3ay-searxng-0-unstable-2026-03-18/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:470
Function	response
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0, message=f"CAPTCHA ({params['data'].get('kl')})")

Exception	IndexError	Percentage	0
Filename	/nix/store/gg36sf244flzblj9j65zx5341biab3ay-searxng-0-unstable-2026-03-18/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:493
Function	response
Code	url=eval_xpath(div_result, ".//h2/a/@href")[0],

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	0
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 2, locale: en-US) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	/nix/store/gg36sf244flzblj9j65zx5341biab3ay-searxng-0-unstable-2026-03-18/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

**Version of SearXNG, commit number if you are using on master branch and stipulate if you forked SearXNG**
Repository: https://github.com/searxng/searxng
Branch: master
Version: 2026.03.18+3810dc9d

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Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 45
  * Parameters: `('CAPTCHA (us-en) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `/nix/store/gg36sf244flzblj9j65zx5341biab3ay-searxng-0-unstable-2026-03-18/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:470`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0, message=f"CAPTCHA ({params['data'].get('kl')})")`

Error
  * Error: IndexError
  * Percentage: 0
  * Parameters: `()`
  * File name: `/nix/store/gg36sf244flzblj9j65zx5341biab3ay-searxng-0-unstable-2026-03-18/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:493`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `url=eval_xpath(div_result, ".//h2/a/@href")[0],`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 0
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 2, locale: en-US) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `/nix/store/gg36sf244flzblj9j65zx5341biab3ay-searxng-0-unstable-2026-03-18/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

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