deedy5
commented
6 months ago Thanks for finding the error. Fixed in v3.9.11.
Unfortunately, things change very quickly on the internet. There is no guarantee that what works now will not stop working tomorrow.
error returned when trying to run image search
duckduckgo_search.exceptions.DuckDuckGoSearchException: _get_url() https://duckduckgo.com/i.js APIException: _get_url() https://duckduckgo.com/i.js 500 in url
steps to reproduce -
from duckduckgo_search import DDGS with DDGS() as ddgs: keywords = 'butterfly' ddgs_images_gen = ddgs.images( keywords, region="wt-wt", safesearch="off", size=None, color="Monochrome", type_image=None, layout=None, license_image=None, max_results=100, ) for r in ddgs_images_gen: print(r)
results in following error trace -
_Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/keithnisbet/Bubblr/ew/ew-nlp/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/duckduckgo_search.py", line 46, in _get_url if _is_500_in_url(str(resp.url)) or resp.status_code == 403: duckduckgo_search.exceptions.APIException: _get_url() https://duckduckgo.com/i.js 500 in url During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 15, in
File "/Users/keithnisbet/Bubblr/ew/ew-nlp/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/duckduckgo_search.py", line 381, in images
license_image = f"license:{license_image}" if license_image else ""
File "/Users/keithnisbet/Bubblr/ew/ew-nlp/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/duckduckgo_search.py", line 57, in _get_url
except httpx.HTTPError as ex:
duckduckgo_search.exceptions.DuckDuckGoSearchException: _get_url() https://duckduckgo.com/i.js APIException: _geturl() https://duckduckgo.com/i.js 500 in url
Are DDG making changes or are there regular issues like this - I am thinking may have to use a different search engine