{"id":"ddgs","name":"DDGS","af_score":61.5,"security_score":60.0,"reliability_score":null,"what_it_does":"Metasearch Python library that aggregates results from multiple search engines (Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Google, Mojeek, Yandex, Yahoo, Wikipedia) into a unified interface. Supports text, image, video, news, and book searches. Includes an MCP server with HTTP and SSE transports, plus a standalone API server.","best_when":"You need free, multi-engine web search for AI agents without paying per-query API fees to commercial search providers.","avoid_when":"You need guaranteed uptime, official API access with SLAs, or very high query volumes. Commercial search APIs (Tavily, Brave Search API) may be more reliable.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-01T09:50:05.480053+00:00"}