DuckDuckGo instant answer
Zero-click instant answer for a topic or entity (not a web search): abstract from Wikipedia and other sources, official site, infobox, related topics, direct. Needs q.
Inputs
- Q
- Topic, entity or question, e.g. 'Alan Turing'Required · q
Pricing
- Price
- Free, no charge per call
- Billing
- No charge per call. A workspace is still needed so your agent can call it.
- License
- DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API (free, attribution requested)
- Attribution
- Results from DuckDuckGo; abstracts often from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Call
Your agent reads the schema and the price with inspect_tool before it runs the tool.
- MCP call
- cURL command
- TypeScript
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