Search Duck Duck Go from linux terminal

I knew I’d heard of searching Google from the terminal before, but I try to use Duck Duck Go whenever possible, banging Start Page then Google if DDG doesn’t give me what I need; which is getting less frequent

So a search result yesterday returned this awesome useful terminal function DDGR

Github with details and destructions found here: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

Features

• Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom color
• Designed to deliver maximum readability at minimum space
• Specify the number of search results to show per page
• Navigate result pages from omniprompt, open URLs in browser
• Search and option completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish
• DuckDuckGo Bang support (along with completion)
• Open the first result directly in browser (as in I’m Feeling Ducky)
• Non-stop searches: fire new searches at omniprompt without exiting
• Keywords (e.g. filetype:mime, site:somesite.com) support
• Limit search by time, specify region, disable safe search
• HTTPS proxy support, Do Not Track set, optionally disable User Agent
• Support custom url handler script or cmdline utility
• Comprehensive documentation, man page with handy usage examples
• Minimal dependencies

Dependencies

• ddgr requires Python 3.4 or later. Only the latest patch release of each minor version is supported.

Ubuntu install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:twodopeshaggy/jarun
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ddgr


to run

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enjoy!