Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
What This Skill Does
duckse is a CLI tool for metasearch built on DuckDuckGo Search. It supports text, news, images, videos, and books queries with filters for time range, region, safe search, and multiple search backends. Results come back as formatted text or JSON.
Covers text, images, video, news, and books in one CLI with multi-backend support and JSON output, without requiring a browser or API key.
When to use it
- Finding news articles published in the last 24 hours on a specific topic
- Fact-checking a claim by pulling recent web sources with resolved URLs
- Searching for images filtered by size, color, or layout type
- Piping JSON search results into a downstream script or data pipeline
- Monitoring a keyword across news sources over the past week
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: Find recent news about the climate summit from the past week
- 1Run duckse "climate summit" --type news --timelimit w --max-results 15
- 2Receive structured results with titles, snippets, and redirect URLs
- 3Run with --expand-url to resolve final URLs for top results
- 4Present titles and resolved links to the user
A list of recent news articles about the climate summit with titles and direct source URLs
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.