Bug: duckduckgo engine

[Voidwyrm]

Version of SearXNG, commit number if you are using on master branch and stipulate if you forked SearXNG Repository: https://github.com/privau/searxng Branch: main Version: 2023.6.30+8e8d8dab

How did you install SearXNG? N/A What happened? DuckDuckGo gives the error message "Suspended: access denied"

How To Reproduce Search on priv.au and open "Messages from the search engines"

Expected behavior DuckDuckGo returns search results rather than an error message

Screenshots & Logs

Additional context This happens on both Firefox and Chrome

Technical report

Error

• Error: httpx.ConnectTimeout
• Percentage: 30
• Parameters: (None, None, 'duckduckgo.com')
• File name: searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:98
• Function: get_vqd
• Code: res = get(query_url, headers=headers)

Error

• Error: httpx.TimeoutException
• Percentage: 15
• Parameters: (None, None, None)
• File name: searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:98
• Function: get_vqd
• Code: res = get(query_url, headers=headers)

Error

• Error: httpx.TimeoutException
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: (None, None, None)
• File name: searx/search/processors/online.py:118
• Function: _send_http_request
• Code: response = req(params['url'], **request_args)

Error

• Error: httpx.ConnectTimeout
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: (None, None, 'lite.duckduckgo.com')
• File name: searx/search/processors/online.py:118
• Function: _send_http_request
• Code: response = req(params['url'], **request_args)

Error

• Error: timeout
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: ()
• File name: searx/search/processors/abstract.py:102
• Function: handle_exception
• Code: count_error(self.engine_name, exception_or_message)

Error

• Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineAccessDeniedException
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: ('HTTP error 403',)
• File name: searx/search/processors/online.py:118
• Function: _send_http_request
• Code: response = req(params['url'], **request_args)

Error

• Error: httpx.ReadError
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: (None, None, 'lite.duckduckgo.com')
• File name: searx/search/processors/online.py:118
• Function: _send_http_request
• Code: response = req(params['url'], **request_args)

Error

• Error: httpx.ReadError
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: (None, None, 'duckduckgo.com')
• File name: searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:98
• Function: get_vqd
• Code: res = get(query_url, headers=headers)

[vojkovic]

It seems that DuckDuckGo is rate limiting my instance. I've disabled DuckDuckGo as a default search engine, hopefully it will be removed from the rate limit soon.