Engine stats - duckduckgo

Engine name

Scores

Result count

Response time

Reliability

duckduckgo

1.3

0.8

	Total	HTTP
Median	0.8	0.8
P80	0.8	0.8
P95	0.8	0.8

Errors and exceptions

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	15
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 7, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	10
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 8, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	10
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 4, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	10
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 6, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	10
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 10, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	10
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 2, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	10
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 9, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	10
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 3, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	5
Parameter	CAPTCHA (wt-wt) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:470
Function	response
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0, message=f"CAPTCHA ({params['data'].get('kl')})")

Exception	IndexError	Percentage	5
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:493
Function	response
Code	url=eval_xpath(div_result, ".//h2/a/@href")[0],

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	5
Parameter	VQD missed (page: 5, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411
Function	request
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	0
Parameter	CAPTCHA (uk-en) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:470
Function	response
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0, message=f"CAPTCHA ({params['data'].get('kl')})")

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException	Percentage	0
Parameter	CAPTCHA (cn-zh) (suspended_time=0)
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:470
Function	response
Code	raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0, message=f"CAPTCHA ({params['data'].get('kl')})")

**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: 2026.3.13+3c1f68c59

**How did you install SearXNG?**

**What happened?**

**How To Reproduce**

**Expected behavior**

**Screenshots & Logs**

**Additional context**

**Technical report**

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 15
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 7, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 10
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 8, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 10
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 4, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 10
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 6, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 10
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 10, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 10
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 2, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 10
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 9, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 10
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 3, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 5
  * Parameters: `('CAPTCHA (wt-wt) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:470`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0, message=f"CAPTCHA ({params['data'].get('kl')})")`

Error
  * Error: IndexError
  * Percentage: 5
  * Parameters: `()`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:493`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `url=eval_xpath(div_result, ".//h2/a/@href")[0],`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 5
  * Parameters: `('VQD missed (page: 5, locale: all) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:411`
  * Function: `request`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 0
  * Parameters: `('CAPTCHA (uk-en) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:470`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0, message=f"CAPTCHA ({params['data'].get('kl')})")`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineCaptchaException
  * Percentage: 0
  * Parameters: `('CAPTCHA (cn-zh) (suspended_time=0)',)`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:470`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0, message=f"CAPTCHA ({params['data'].get('kl')})")`

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