DuckDuckGo Tool - Enable use of news/books/images/videos search

[sharmuz]

Description

Hello! I'm a big fan of pydantic :-)

I'm wondering whether for common_tools.duckduckgo.duckduckgo_search_tool we could get support for using the news/books/images/videos search options that ddgs.DDGS provides. Perhaps an optional arg, with text being the default?

(Side note: but it may be helpful for folks behind a corporate proxy to know that ddgs uses primp as its HTTP client, which respects the env var PRIMP_CA_BUNDLE. However, when using DuckDuckGo as the search engine for text it uses httpx and seems hard-coded to use certifi's Mozilla certs, so funnily DDG will be the only search engine that won't work.)

Cheers,
Muz

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[DouweM]

@sharmuz Hey Muz, definitely, feel free to submit a PR to add some knobs to duckduckgo_search_tool/DuckDuckGoSearchTool.

(Side note: but it may be helpful for folks behind a corporate proxy to know that ddgs uses primp as its HTTP client, which respects the env var PRIMP_CA_BUNDLE. However, when using DuckDuckGo as the search engine for text it uses httpx and seems hard-coded to use certifi's Mozilla certs, so funnily DDG will be the only search engine that won't work.)

Very interesting, thanks for the call-out!

[lienminhquang]

@DouweM I would like to work on this feature. These search options share some arguments, but not all of them see this doc. Should we create a sperate tool for each search option, or update the existing tool to support all arguments and select the applicable ones based on the search type?

[DouweM]

@lienminhquang I think separate tools would make the most sense.