[Q] Are there any API limits?

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:duck: DuckDuckGo from the terminal

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[Q] Are there any API limits? #122

Closed NightMachinery closed 4 years ago

NightMachinery commented 4 years ago

Will there be problems if I use this for automatic scraping?

jarun commented 4 years ago

This utility is not intended for automatic scraping.

I believe it is an abuse of a free service. If you do that soon DDG may take countermeasures so people who were using it for occasional searches would also lose it.

I am not going to spend too much of my personal time to fix those as I don't use ddgr a lot myself. You can refer to issue #115 for an insight on what happened the last time it was broken.